Épisode de la Guerre d’Amérique

Catalogue number: SO 0024
Artist: Edwin Forbes
Printer: Imprimerie Delâtre
Date: 1866
Medium: Etching
Dimensions [to plate mark]: 314 x 235 mm
Publication: Société des Aquafortistes. Eaux-fortes modernes. Oeuvres inédites et originales : cinquième année, cinquième volume : 1867

Subject

A Union artillery train struggling to make progress along a forest track in Virginia during the American Civil War; the horses struggle under the whip, while the carcass of another is prominent in the left foreground.

Later inscription in pencil 'Forbes, Épisode de la Guerre d'Amérique'.

Printing

Impression from the 1867 portfolio of the Société des Aquafortistes. Printed by Imprimerie Delâtre for Cadart et Luquet.

History

Purchased from Ebay seller underhardcover, order no. 27-11205-69606, on 22 Feb 2024