IMAGE
Siege of Petersburg Item Info
- Title:
- Siege of Petersburg
- Artist:
- Becker, Joseph, 1841-1910
- Date:
- July 1864
- Transcription:
- Recto: "Rebel camp // Rebels at work on their line.";Verso: "Siege of Petersburg // looking from the observation tree on the left of the union line." Sketch with erasure of three men on a mountain overlooking a valley (the artist included?).
- Subjects:
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865 Confederate States of America.--Army
- Condition:
- Three vertical folds; small rips along upper edge; crumbling on both right corners.
- Place:
- Virginia--Dinwiddie--Petersburg
- Medium:
- graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions:
- 13 x 9.75 in.
- Genre:
- Image;StillImage
- Coordinates:
- 37.2279279, -77.4019266999999
- Source:
- Original drawing location: CW-JB-VA-7/64a (Box 1.)
- URI:
- http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4561
- Ref. Number:
- (Becker)CW-JB-VA-7/64a
- Collection:
- America's Civil War Years: Multiple Perspectives
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Attribution
- Citation:
- "Siege of Petersburg", The Becker Collection, Boston College Libraries, /items/2960.html