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First Snow: Soldiers Gathering Wood (Siege of Petersburg) Item Info
- Abstract:
- Worked landscape drawing, first signed on recto?.
- Title:
- First Snow: Soldiers Gathering Wood (Siege of Petersburg)
- Artist:
- Becker, Joseph, 1841-1910
- Date:
- November 17, 1864
- Transcription:
- Recto: "[Signed] J. Becker Nov 17th 64.";Verso: no text.
- Subjects:
- Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865 Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Timber--Virginia Horses--Virginia
- Condition:
- Bad loss of paper on right and lower margins; creasing.
- Place:
- Virginia--Dinwiddie--Petersburg
- Medium:
- graphite and ink wash, heightened with white, on wove paper
- Dimensions:
- 13 x 9.75 in.
- Genre:
- Image;StillImage
- Coordinates:
- 37.2279279, -77.4019266999999
- Source:
- Original drawing location: CW-JB-VA-11/17/64 (Box 2.)
- URI:
- http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4613
- Ref. Number:
- (Becker)CW-JB-VA-11/17/64
- Collection:
- America's Civil War Years: Multiple Perspectives
- Tags:
- Architecture
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Attribution
- Citation:
- "First Snow: Soldiers Gathering Wood (Siege of Petersburg)", The Becker Collection, Boston College Libraries, /items/3026.html