First Snow: Soldiers Gathering Wood (Siege of Petersburg)
Title
First Snow: Soldiers Gathering Wood (Siege of Petersburg)
Abstract
Worked landscape drawing, first signed on recto?.
Artist
Date
November 17, 1864
Transcription
Recto: "[Signed] J. Becker Nov 17th 64."
Verso: no text.
Subject
Condition
Bad loss of paper on right and lower margins; creasing.
Medium
graphite and ink wash, heightened with white, on wove paper
Dimensions
13 x 9.75 in.
Genre
Graphite drawings--American--1860-1870
Ink drawings--American--1860-1870
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
Citation
Becker, Joseph, 1841-1910, “First Snow: Soldiers Gathering Wood (Siege of Petersburg),” The Becker Collection, accessed April 28, 2024, https://beckercollection.bc.edu/items/show/3026.