Prints, American -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Fortification; Figures -- Male; Soldiers; Battlefields; Artillery; African Americans; Trenches; Hats; Sabers; Battles; Baskets; Shovels; Economics and class; Men
After Winslow Homer
Curatorial inscription notes: Signed lower right: HOMER Del Printed below: A Shell in the Rebel Trenches.--[See Page 51.] Printed on right: 36 Harper's Weekly. [January 17, 1863
Fawcett, William;Goldsworthy, Philip;Dundas, David, Sir, 1735-1820;Painting, British -- 18th century;George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 -- Portraits;George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 -- Portraits;Great Britain. Army;Officers...
Remarks: A smaller version (22 x 26 3/4 in., 55.9 x 68 cm.) in Christie's Important and Fine Old Master Paintings, Wed., Jan. 12, 1994, p. 72, repr. p....
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany ; World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war ; World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war; World War, 1914-1918; Soldiers; Battlefields; Atrocities; Dead; Death; Corpses
The painting was purchased from Karl Nierendorf by the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in 1923, and later acquired by the Stadtmuseum and Gemäldegalerie, Dresden. It was confiscated by Nazis in 1933, and exhibited in Room 3 (National Socialist inventory...
