Collection Highlights
Grenadier cap
1740-1770
1890.3
Wool, linen
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Baxter's Philadelphia Fire Zouaves Being Reviewed by President Lincoln at the White House, Washington, D. C.
Title
Baxter's Philadelphia Fire Zouaves Being Reviewed by President Lincoln at the White House, Washington, D. C.
Date
Early September 1861
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 8 3/8 x 9 3/8 in. (21.3 x 23.8 cm)
Description
Civil War Drawings Collection. Reproduced in Phillip Van Doren Stern, They were There: The Civil War in Action as Seen by its Combat Artists (New York: Crown, 1959), pg. 36, pl. 34 and in Roberta J.M. Olson, Drawn By New York: Six Centuries of Watercolors and Drawings from the N-YHS (London: Giles, 2008), 310-311.
Credit Line
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
Object Number
1945.580.38
Inscriptions
Inscribed along lower edge in graphite: "The Philadelphia Fire Zouaves being reviewed / by President Lincoln --Wanslley -- RN[orPM?] --"; verso inscribed at left vertically: "The Large Envelopes ar all used up."
Provenance
John T. Kavanaugh Collection, Rutherford, New Jersey, 1945
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
