Our Heaven Born Banner – Historic Print
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Description
Step back in time with Our Heaven Born Banner, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Our Heaven Born Banner" places its flag not over a fort or a ship but high in the sky, a choice that ties it to Frederic Edwin Church's small oil "Our Banner in the Sky." Church worked in 1861 under the shock of the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in April, when the Union garrison was forced to surrender and lower its flag. This lithograph, drawn by William Bauly, printed in color by Sarony, Major & Knapp, and published in New York by William Schaus, is one of the pro-Union images that circulated widely that year to rally viewers around the flag.
| 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 | 2,100 × 1,440 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-225573 |
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