Scenes at Butler's Dutch Gap Canal (Siege of Petersburg)
Title
Scenes at Butler's Dutch Gap Canal (Siege of Petersburg)
Abstract
Schematic battle scene with nice landscape touches; in Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper 11/26/1864, front page.
Artist
Date
October 26, 1864
Transcription
Recto: no text.
Verso: "Scenes at Butler's Dutch Gap Canal // The Howlett house battery throwing shells and the workman getting to cover // Oct 26th [Signed] Joseph Becker."
Subject
Condition
Vertical and horizontal folds; loss of paper at upper right corner and along upper margin.
Medium
graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
10 x 6.5 in.
Genre
Graphite drawings--American--1860-1870
Coordinates
37.359871, -77.4152606
Source
Original drawing location: CW-JB-VA-10/26/64b (Box 2.)
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4603
Ref. Number
(Becker)CW-JB-VA-10/26/64b
Citation
Becker, Joseph, 1841-1910, “Scenes at Butler's Dutch Gap Canal (Siege of Petersburg),” The Becker Collection, accessed April 28, 2024, https://beckercollection.bc.edu/items/show/3016.