View from the summit of Little Round Top at 7:30 P.M. July 3rd, 1863 / Edwin Forbes. – Antique Wall Art
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of View from the summit of Little Round Top at 7:30 P.M. July 3rd, 1863 / Edwin Forbes.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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View from the summit of Little Round Top at 7:30 P.M. July 3rd, 1863 / Edwin Forbes.
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Little Round Top, the rocky, wooded hill south of the Gettysburg battlefield, is the vantage point here, and Edwin Forbes shows it at 7:30 in the evening of July 3, 1863, hours after the Confederate assault known as Pickett's Charge had failed on Cemetery Ridge. The subject headings point to the cannon that crowded the hilltop and the open fields below. Forbes, a Union artist who sketched in the field during the war, later turned his wartime studies into finished images, and this work is catalogued with the Library's Civil War drawings. Its long, quiet view over the emptied ground gives a sense of the battle's end.
| Created / published | [between 1865 and 1895] |
|---|---|
| Genre | Oil paintings American 1860-1900. |
| Notes | Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.285) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863. Cannons--1860-1900. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles.United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 836 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-112540 |
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