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| Keywords: Waud-Petersburg-Crater.jpeg Before Petersburg at sunrise July 30th 1864 MEDIUM 1 drawing on green paper pencil and Chinese white ; 34 5 x 51 3 cm sheet CREATED/PUBLISHED 1864 July 30 Signed lower right AR Waud Title inscribed below image Inscribed above image Spires in Petersburg The mine Inscribed on separate sheet of cream paper Explosion of the mine under the Confederate works at Petersburg ”July 30th 1864 The spires in the distance mark the location of the city; along the crest in front of them are the defensive works it was an angle of these that was blown up with its guns defenders The explosion was the signal for the simultaneous opening of the artillery and musketry of the Union lines The pickets are seen running in from their pits shelters on the front to the outer line of attack In the middle distance are the magnificent 8 10 inch Mortar batteries built and commanded by Col Abbott Nearer is a line of abandoned rifle pits and in the foreground is the covered way a sunken road for communication with the siege works and the conveyance of supplies and ammunition to the forts The chief Engineer of the A of P is standing upon the embankment watching progress throw sic a field glass Published in Harper's Weekly August 20 1864 pp 536 “7 Gift J P Morgan 1919 DLC/PP-1919 R1 2 727 Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file ”1864 Reference print available in Ray Plate 83 pp 162 “163 Forms part of Civil War drawing collection Published in Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress Washington Library of Congress 1975 no 83 Library of Congress Prints Photographs Division LC-USZ62-176 b w film copy neg http //memory loc gov/master/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a04000/3a04100/3a04153u tif uncompressed archival TIFF version 1724 KiB color level pick white point healed cropped and converted to JPEG quality level 88 with the GIMP 2 6 1 1864-07-30 Alfred Rudolph Waud 1828 “91 No known restriction on publication File Petersburg crater explosion waud jpg LOC-image cph 3a04153 PD-old Alfred Waud Battle of the Crater Pencil drawings | ||||
