Beefsteak rare, near Petersburg, Va. – Historic Print
(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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Beefsteak rare, near Petersburg, Va.
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A pencil drawing dated June 17, 1864, and titled "Beefsteak rare, near Petersburg, Va.," shows a Union camp in Virginia just as the armies were settling into the long siege of that city. The title points to a routine camp task, cooking beef over open fires, which soldiers often had to improvise with whatever rations and tools they had. The drawing is one of a group of Civil War sketches from the 1860s, and its missing corners and damage in the lower right remind viewers how fragile wartime works on paper can be.
| Created / published | 1864 June 17. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : pencil. |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Three corners missing with some loss to image and text in lower right corner. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.199) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | Outdoor cookery--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military life-- Union.United States--Virginia--Petersburg |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,184 × 1,485 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218134 |
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