Our Heaven Born Banner – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Our Heaven Born Banner, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
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Our Heaven Born Banner" shows a flag set against the sky, a pro-Union image printed in New York around 1861. Its composition appears to follow Frederic Edwin Church's small oil "Our Banner in the Sky," which responded to the Confederate insult to the American flag at Fort Sumter in April 1861. The lithograph was printed by Sarony, Major & Knapp and published by William Schaus, with the painted version credited to William Bauly. Its message turns a widely publicized national humiliation into a picture of the flag as heaven-born and enduring.
| Created / published | c. 1861 |
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| Medium | print on wove paper, lithograph printed in colors, image 25.2 x 32.3 cm. |
| Notes | Painted by William. Bauly. Lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp. Published by W[illiam] Schaus. New York. SUMMARY: A pro-Union patriotic print, evidently based on Frederic Edwin Church's small oil painting "Our Banner in the Sky" or on a chromolithograph reproducing that painting published in New York by Goupil & Co. in the summer of 1861. Church's painting was inspired by the highly publicized Confederate insult to the American flag at Fort Sumter in April 1861 and by a sermon by Henry Ward Beecher published shortly thereafter. The present print was deposited for copyright, with a companion piece, "Fate of the Rebel Flag" (no. 1861-21), on September 6. "Our Heaven Born Banner" shows a lone Zouave sentry watching from a promontory as the dawn breaks in the distance. His rifle and bayonet form the staff of an American flag whose design and colors are formed by the sky's light. Below, in the dis |
| Original scan | 4,000 × 2,743 px · prints to 13 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-225573 |
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