Our Heaven Born Banner – Antique Wall Art
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Description
This rare antique lithograph captures Our Heaven Born Banner in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Our Heaven Born Banner
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Titled *Our Heaven Born Banner*, this c. 1861 lithograph shows a flag floating in the sky as a pro-Union emblem. Its design appears to follow Frederic Edwin Church's painting *Our Banner in the Sky*, or a chromolithograph of that work, which responded to the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861 and to a sermon by Henry Ward Beecher. William Bauly painted the image, Sarony, Major & Knapp printed it in color, and William Schaus published it in New York. Prints like this carried the Union cause into homes during the first months of the Civil War.
| Created / published | c. 1861 |
|---|---|
| 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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