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Battle of Spottsylvania

by Bror Thure de Thulstrup

1887
Chromolithograph
no dimensions avaliable

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Washington, D.C.

Thulstrup, Bror Thure denotes
The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, sometimes simply referred to as the Battle of Spotsylvania (or the 19th century spelling Spottsylvania), was the second major battle in Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign of the American Civil War. Following the bloody but inconclusive Battle of the Wilderness, Grant's army disengaged from...
Building pontoons

by Bror Thure de Thulstrup

c. 1887 May 16
Chromolithograph
no dimensions avaliable

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Washington, D.C.

Thulstrup, Bror Thure denotes
The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside. The Union army's futile frontal assaults on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on...
Carrying off the ivory

by Bror Thure de Thulstrup

1888
Pen and ink
no dimensions avaliable

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Washington, D.C.

Thulstrup, Bror Thure denotes
The fictional adventurer Allan Quatermain (center) follows his men carrying a large quantity of ivory, in the H. Rider Haggard novel Maiwa's Revenge: or, The War of the Little Hand (1888).
Congress Voting The Declaration Of Independence

by Robert Edge Pine

engraving
no dimensions avaliable

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Washington, D.C.

Pine, Robert Edgenotes
Print shows men gathered in the Assembly Room in the Pennsylvania State House (now called Independence Hall), Philadelphia. Completed figures include John Adams, Roger Sherman, James Wilson and Thomas Jefferson, handing a document to John Hancock, president of the Congress. Seated in the front from left to right are Samuel Adams, Robert Morris,...
Corrupt Legislation

by Elihu Vedder

1895-1896
Unknown
no dimensions avaliable

Library of Congress

Washington, D.C.

Vedder, Elihunotes
Description: A central female figure is seated in a throne on a path overgrown with weeds. With her right hand she waves away a poorly dressed girl who is in search of work. In her left hand she holds a sliding scale. A man sits beside her with a bag of gold and an overturned voting urn with ballots. In the background are the man's factories--some...
Government

by Elihu Vedder

1895-1896
Unknown
no dimensions avaliable

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Washington, D.C.

Vedder, Elihunotes
Description: This central panel in the series of Government represents the abstract conception of a republic as the ideal state. A central female figure sits on a marble throne and is crowned with a wreath. She holds a golden scepter and supports a tablet inscribed "A government of the people, by the people, for the people." The winged youths stand...
Grand National Whig Banner: Press Onward

by Nathaniel Currier

c. 1848
lithograph with watercolor
image 31.2 x 23 cm

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Washington, D.C.

Currier, Nathanielnotes
Print shows a campaign banner for Whig Party candidates in the national election of 1848. The banner, promoting Zachary Taylor and his vice presidential running mate Millard Fillmore, is almost identical to Currier's "Grand, National, Democratic Banner" (no. 1848-6) differing only in the candidate portraits, campaign mottos, the lettering on the...
Grant from West Point to Appomattox

by Bror Thure de Thulstrup

1885
Chromolithograph
no dimensions avaliable

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Washington, D.C.

Thulstrup, Bror Thure denotes
Ulysses Grant, half-length portrait, facing left; surrounded by nine scenes of his career from West Point graduation in 1843 to Lee's surrender in 1865, including artillery crew in the Tower of Chapultepec, Mexico, 1847; drilling Volunteers, 1861; Fort Donelson, 1862; Shiloh, 1862; Siege of Vicksburg, 1863; Chattanooga, 1863; appointment by Lincoln...
His view

by Charles Jay Taylor

1896 Sept. 2
India ink over pencil, with scraping out on bristol board
43.4 x 36.7 cm. (sheet)

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Washington, D.C.

Taylor, Charles Jaynotes
Two African American men converse. One stands, leaning against a barrel and holding a slice of watermelon. The other sits on a doorstep with a pail between his legs.
I Should Like To Make My Own Living

by William Thomas Smedley

1906
Watercolor
no dimensions avaliable

Library of Congress

Washington, D.C.

Smedley, William Thomas 
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