Prisoners at Richmond: Union Troops Prisoners at Belle Isle, from "Harper's Weekly"

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Prisoners at Richmond: Union Troops Prisoners at Belle Isle, from "Harper's Weekly"
Prisoners at Richmond: Union Troops Prisoners at Belle Isle, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished December 5 , 1863
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 9 1/8 × 13 11/16 in. (23.2 × 34.8 cm) Sheet: 15 3/4 × 10 3/4 in. (40 × 27.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.48
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Provenance 2019: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Jay G. Williams.
Signature Signed "Th Nast" in block at lower right composition.
Inscribed Title typeset beneath image in black ink. Publication date "December 5, 1863," publisher, and page number "781" typeset along left perimeter of image at top of the sheet in black ink.
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