The fall of Richmond Va. on the night of April 2nd – Vintage Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: The fall of Richmond Va. on the night of April 2nd, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The fall of Richmond Va. on the night of April 2nd
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Richmond, the Confederate capital, fell on the night of April 2, 1865, and this hand-colored lithograph from Currier & Ives depicts that night. Confederate authorities left the city after Union forces broke the defenses at Petersburg, and supplies and warehouses were set on fire to keep them from falling into Union hands. The flames spread through parts of the city overnight, and Union troops entered the next morning. Currier & Ives, a New York firm, sold affordable prints like this to a public eager for images of the war's major events.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1865. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1982 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,266 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174411 |
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