BIB_ID
108233
Accession number
MA 125A (1)
Creator
Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895.
Display Date
1882 Nov. 18.
Description
1 item (78 p.)
Notes
The manuscripts of this item and Forbes's Gettysburg campaign, cataloged separately as MA 125A (2), are housed together in a single looseleaf notebook with a cardboard cover bearing both titles.
The original sketches described in this manuscript are not in the collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library. Pierpont Morgan purchased the sketches and related material from Ida B. Forbes in 1901; Morgan's son, J. P. Morgan Jr., gave the entire collection, including paintings, sketches, prints, and plates, to the Library of Congress in 1918.
Written on loose sheets of lined paper with cardboard cover.
The original sketches described in this manuscript are not in the collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library. Pierpont Morgan purchased the sketches and related material from Ida B. Forbes in 1901; Morgan's son, J. P. Morgan Jr., gave the entire collection, including paintings, sketches, prints, and plates, to the Library of Congress in 1918.
Written on loose sheets of lined paper with cardboard cover.
Summary
An item-by-item description of items 1-251 of Forbes's series Life sketches of the great army, the basis for his etchings series Life studies of the great army.
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