View in the Chickahominy Swamp / McIlvaine. – 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: View in the Chickahominy Swamp / McIlvaine., preserved in this historic drawing. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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View in the Chickahominy Swamp / McIlvaine.
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Moonlight silvers the water and tangled trees in this 1862 watercolor of the Chickahominy Swamp in eastern Virginia. The river ran through low, waterlogged woods northeast of Richmond, and in 1862 those wetlands became a serious obstacle for Union forces during the Peninsula Campaign, where soldiers struggled through mud, standing water, and disease-prone ground. The work is credited to an artist named McIlvaine and belongs to the Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Its nighttime setting gives a quieter view of a landscape more often remembered for the fighting that took place there.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : watercolor. |
| Genre | Watercolors American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Moonlight--1860-1870. Wetlands--Virginia--Chickahominy River--1860-1870. Chickahominy River (Va.) --1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.United States--Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,826 × 4,609 px · prints to 13 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220258 |
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