Army news, missing.
Creator(s)
Fuhr, Charles Jérémie, b. 1832, artist.
Contributor(s)
Barry, Charles A., 1830-1892, artist. Imprimerie Lemercier et cie, printer.
Title
Army news , missing .
Link to library catalog record
http://catalog.bostonathenaeum.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=388196
Date
1866 .
Publishing details
Paris : Imp . Lemercier & Cie. , r[ue] de Seine , 57 .
Physical Description
1 print on wove paper : lithograph , tinted with scraping ; image 58.8 x 47.5 cm. , sheet 70.8 x 55 cm .
Summary
A genre print conveying the domestic consequences of the Civil War . Bust-length full-face portrait of a mournful young woman in tears . She wears a shawl and a necklace with a cross on it . A French lithograph after a drawing by the American artist Charles Alfred Barry . This is one of a series of five drawings by Barry entitled "The Five Ideal Faces of American Women " that depicted Civil War wives . For another lithograph in the series see The Angel of the Hospital in the Athenaeum's Prints & Photographs Department (D URU Ang.1866) . Signed on the stone lower left of image by the lithographic artist . Barry's facsimile signature lower right of image . By exchange , December 1994 . #1994.27 (no.1) .
Subject(s)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women--Portraits.
Genre terms
Genre prints--France--1860-1870. Lithographs--France--1860-1870.
Location
Prints and Photographs Dept . (Appointment required) D URU Arm.1866
Source
443_53.tif
Rights
Collection of the Boston Athenaeum. May not be reproduced or quoted without written permission. For more information, see http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/46
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