Sheridan's ride / Thulstrup ; facsimile print by L. Prang & Co. – 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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A window into the past: Sheridan's ride / Thulstrup ; facsimile print by L. Prang & Co., 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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Sheridan's ride / Thulstrup ; facsimile print by L. Prang & Co.
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This chromolithograph shows Philip Henry Sheridan's ride on his black horse to the front at Cedar Creek, Virginia, on October 19, 1864, when he rallied Union troops that had been driven back earlier that morning. The image was drawn by Thure de Thulstrup and reproduced by L. Prang & Co., the Boston firm known for popular color prints. Its heroic composition reflects how Sheridan's ride, celebrated in Thomas Buchanan Read's 1865 poem, became a defining Union story of the Civil War. Printed around 1886, the piece shows how color lithography carried war memory into American homes after the conflict.
| Created / published | c1886. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Subjects | Sheridan, Philip Henry,--1831-1888--Military service. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,468 × 1,160 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216094 |
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