(CIVIL WAR ART) Davis Theodore Russell An Incident Battle

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(CIVIL WAR--ART.) Davis, Theodore Russell. An Incident--Battle of New Hope Church--Bad Fix for a Confederate Sharpshooter. Pen and ink drawing, 312 x 162 mm, small crease in lower left corner not affecting image. Not examined out of frame. Np, [ca. 1885?]

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Theodore Russell Davis (1840-1894) was an illustrator who was twice wounded on the front lines as a special correspondent for Harper's Monthly during the Civil War. This drawing depicts a scene at the Battle of New Hope Church ca. 25 May 1864, part of Sherman's campaign about 25 miles north of Atlanta. "After an eyewitness sketch by the artist . . . Davis was at this point traveling with the Army of the Cumberland, and his drawing reveals his talent for capturing the visual anecdote"--The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art (1974), 302-3, 357-8. Later sold at Christie's New York, 27 May 1988, lot 212.