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Tango01 | 11 Jun 2014 10:40 p.m. PST |
the U.S. Civil War. "Matthew Brady may have provided a photographic record of the U.S. Civil War, but it was the dazzling, full-colour battlefield lithographs mass-produced by Louis Kurz and Alexander Allison that would capture the imagination of the American public decades later. The iconic series of images dramatizing key moments of the war were produced at the duo's Chicago printing factory throughout the 1880s. The fanciful cartoon-like dramatizations of Civil War combat took the nation by storm and were snapped up by veterans and civilians eager to revel in the nostalgia of the bygone conflict
" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
nazrat | 12 Jun 2014 5:52 a.m. PST |
Beautiful drawings, but I have a book all about the artists doing these sort of things and most of them never saw ANY battlefield, much less the ones they were representing in their illustrations. |
Tango01 | 12 Jun 2014 11:09 a.m. PST |
You are right my friend. Glad you enjoyed them. Amicalement Armand |
gamertom | 12 Jun 2014 4:43 p.m. PST |
I have a coffee table sized book of these illustrations that I bought nearly 40 years ago. I originally intended to paint my 25mm ACW figures to match these illustrations until I found out just how fictitious they are. Still the prints are a beauty to look at. |
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