View from Fort Picketts, Virginia
Title
View from Fort Picketts, Virginia
Abstract
Companion to CW-JT-VA-12/31/64b.
Artist
Date
December 31, 1864
Transcription
Recto: "Getty division // This fort is on our extreme right & is one of the finest positions on our line - 6 gun Battery - two foot cavities are dug to place our cassions for protection from the enemy's shot // Blue Ridge a mellowy distance // logs."
Verso: "View from Ft. Picketts 6th Corps // I promised Gen. Wright that the this and the first Rhode Island battery sketch should be published - this gallant corps has been neglected by us a publication of these will tickle Mr Wright and make me - Hunky Dory - (classic Terence) among his satellites - (artistic Diplomacy) // Gen Seymour is a son in law to Harrison Wier & quite a connoisseur in art - he seemed much pleased with my sketches several of which I showed him - he is a West Pointer & while Sheridan was there taught him drawing - [signed] Taylor."
Condition
Horizontal fold; rough paper as if torn from a sketch book on left margin; small knick on right margin; foxing.
Medium
Graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
5 x 7 in.
Genre
Graphite drawings--American--1860-1870
Coordinates
37.061867, -77.971954
Source
Original drawing location: CW-JT-VA-12/31/64c (Box 9.)
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4845
Ref. Number
(Becker)CW-JT-VA-12/31/64c