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.

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."

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

Tags

Citation

Becker, Joseph, 1841-1910, “Scenes at Butler's Dutch Gap Canal (Siege of Petersburg),” The Becker Collection, accessed November 21, 2024, https://beckercollection.bc.edu/items/show/3016.