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Alfred Waud: English: Scene of the explosion Saturday July 30th (

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Artist



Alternative names	Alfred Rudolph Waud
Description	American artist, illustrator and photographer
Date of birth/death	2 October 1828	6 April 1891
Location of birth/death	London	Marietta
Work period	American Civil War
Work location	United States of America (1850)
Authority file	: Q2226717 VIAF: 75232247 ISNI: 000000006708764X ULAN: 500010848 LCCN: n83170752 Open Library: OL7029472A WorldCat

Title

English: Scene of the explosion Saturday July 30th

Description

Figure in lower left has oversized shoes.

Date

30 July 1864

Medium

drawing 1 drawing on light green paper : pencil and Chinese white

Dimensions

height: 22.9 cm (9 in); width: 34.3 cm (13.5 in) (sheet)

Credit line

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.156)

Inscriptions

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud.

Title inscribed below image.

Inscribed on verso: Petersburg Mine, Va./July 30, 1864/23d U.S. colored/18th U.S.

Inscribed on an accompanying piece of paper in pencil and black ink: The advance to the "crater" after the explosion of the mine. In the middle distance are the mounds of earth thrown up by the explosion: beyond upon the high ground cemetery hill the Confederates inner line of works, which if they had carried, would have given the Union Army Petersburg and Richmond. In the foreground troops are seen advancing to and beyond Burnsides outer intrenched line and moving upon the Confederate defences. These were—on the left Bartletts Massachusetts brigade, and on the right, the Negro troops—this sketch was made about 8 AM July 30th 1864. / A point in the Rebel works known as Elliots Salient over this part was held by the 18th and 23rd S. Carolina infantry and a battery of artillery blown up in the explosion.

Inscribed upper left: By L.L.B.

Notes

Published in: Harper's Weekly, 22 Aug. 1864, p. 548, without the big feet. Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file—1864.

Reference print available in Ray, Plate 84 (pp. 164–165)

Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection.

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