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Execution of five deserters in the 5th Corps. August 29, 1863 (Part of a series of drawings of the event)

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TITLE: Execution of five deserters in the 5th Corps

CALL NUMBER: DRWG/US - Waud, no. 187 (A size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-6979 (b&w film copy neg.)
No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY: Right half of sketch missing. For complete image see DRWG/US-Forbes no. (A size)-155.

MEDIUM: 1 drawing on brown paper : pencil, Chinese white ; 17.8 x 25.9 cm. (sheet).

CREATED/PUBLISHED: [1863 August 29]

CREATOR:

Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist.

NOTES:

Title inscribed below image.

Inscribed on verso: IV 12 Army of the Potomac.

See page inscribed below image in pen and pencil: The Army of the Potomac - Execution of 5 conscripts five deserters in the 5th corps for desertion/ [sketched] by Mr A R Waud. See page

Inscribed upper left: half this sketch missing.

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.187)

Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection.

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