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/Call number	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