Title: Jersey troops breaking the ground for a fort to defend Washington, on Virginia soil near the long bridge
Creator(s): Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist
Date Created/Published: [1861]
Medium: 1 drawing on brown paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 13.8 x 19.1 cm. (sheet)
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-20802 (digital file from original item, recto) LC-DIG-ppmsca-20803 (digital file from original item, verso) LC-USZC4-5169 (color film copy transparency)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: DRWG/US – Waud, no. 1 (A size) [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes:
…..Title on verso.
…..Signed lower left: A.R. Waud.
…..Inscribed on verso: “I have a better sketch taken next day when the 7th had their turn General Mansfield and Capt. Meigs looking […].
…..Similar image published in New York Illustrated News, 15 June 1861, p. 85, as: The New York Seventh Working at Entrenchments, Columbia Springs, Va.
…..Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1).
…..Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
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Mike’s notes:
Note – This image has been digitally adjusted for one or more of the following:
– fade correction,
– color, contrast, and/or saturation enhancement
– selected spot and/or scratch removal
– cropped for composition and/or to accentuate subject