(CIVIL WAR ART) Taber Isaac Walton [Tapping a Wire]

Sale 2148 - Lot 101

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(CIVIL WAR--ART.) Taber, Isaac Walton. [Tapping a Wire.] Pen and ink drawing, matted to 196 x 387 mm. Not examined out of frame. Np, nd

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Sketch of an important but little-known aspect of the war by artist I.W. Taber (1857-1933). Depicts a Union soldier behind enemy lines, bag and rifle by his side, crouched over a receiver which has been spliced into an overhead telegraph wire. This was one of many Taber drawings commissioned by Century Magazine for their Civil War series, and an engraving of it was used to illustrate the article "Telegraphing in Battle" in their September 1889 issue, over the caption "Tapping a Wire." This drawing was reproduced in small format in The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art (1974), 382, and later sold at Christie's New York, 27 May 1988, lot 118.