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1815-1860

Bachelder, John B.

Sketch

Title: [pencil and watercolor in blue. House on tree lined street]

A striking image, done entirely in different shades of blue. The house cannot be identified from any other material --including photographs of the Bachelder home-- in the collection.

GLC02673.25

1815-1860

Bachelder, John B.

Sketch

Title: [pencil and watercolor. Cemetery cross]

cross with measurements

GLC02673.26

1815-1860

Bachelder, John B.

Sketch

Title: [pencil. horse rider watching covered wagon]

unfinished sketch in oval. Frontier flavor

GLC02673.27

1815-1860

Bachelder, John B.

Sketch

Title: [watercolor. Horses and riders outside a rough house with mountains in the background]

Hall & Spaulding. Frontier flavor

GLC02673.28

1815-1860

Bachelder, John B.

Sketch

Title: [watercolor. panoramic view of #28 showing American flag and outbuildings]

Hall & Spaulding. note on verso. Frontier flavor

GLC02673.29

1815-1860

Bachelder, John B.

Sketch

Title: [pencil and brown watercolor. Waterfall with fir tree and visitors]

with unfinished pencil sketch of a woman in bed on verso

GLC02673.30

1815-1860

Unknown

Print

Title: [wood engraving. Charge of the 40th N.Y. (Col. Egan) at the Devil's Den. Gettysburg, July 2d. 1863]

Wood engraving. "Richardson, sc." This engraving appears to be an angle similar to JBB's drawing of the Devil's Den in the Gettysburg sketchbook. GLC# 2670 leaf 5.

GLC02673.31

1815-1860

Unknown

Print

Title: [wood engraving. 9th Mass. (Bigelow's) Battery. Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. ]

"Hold this position at all hazards." Major M'Gilvery. Wood engraving, "Richardson."

GLC02673.32

1815-1860

Unknown

Print

Title: [Military or soldier's decorative alphabet with Civil War scenes within each letter. Wood engraving. 12 letters]

GLC02673.33

1815-1860

Unknown

Print

Title: [Wood engraving of Civil War battle in arch form]

signed "T.W." in left margin. Possibly a printer's proof

GLC02673.34

n.d.

Ward, John Q. A.

Sketch

Title: Cavalier-looking man [European explorer] armed with a musket and sword with native Americans. A ship appears anchored in the background.

Iron gall ink; tracing paper.

GLC06343.205

n.d.

Ward, John Q. A.

Sketch

Title: Standing Native American [profile] with arrow quiver, standing on mount; black ink; tracing paper.

GLC06343.217

1815-1860

Ward, John Quincy Adams (1830-1910)

Sketch

Title: Sculpture designs: Native American hunters [one riding horse hunting buffalo], 3 bust sketches of woman, nude male; graphite, ink; tissue paper.

GLC06343.347

1815-1860

Ward, John Q.A.

Sketch

Title: Sculpture design: Native American warrior dealing a blow to a felled man with clubbing weapon, and female nude; graphite; tracing paper.

GLC06343.358

1815-1860

Ward, John Quincy Adams (1830-1910)

Sketch

Title: Sculpture design: The Norseman sculpture. "Geo[rge] Booth for Costume"; granite; wove paper mounted on linen.

GLC06343.364

1815-1860

Ward, John Quincy Adams (1830-1910)

Sketch

Title: Sculpture design: The Indian Hunter sculpture; graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.366

1815-1860

Ward, John Quincy Adams (1830-1910)

Sketch

Title: 2 Sketches: Native America slaying man, female nude

GLC06343.370

circa 1816.

Yeager, Joseph (ca. 1792-1859)

Engraving

Title: Battle of New Orleans and Death of Major General Packenham

Hand colored engraving shows the battle from the British lines. With black and white bust of Andrew Jackson surrounded by flags in the center of the title. This copy is the first state of this print, showing the officer standing to the right of the recumbent Sir Edward Packenham covering his face with handkerchief. Outgunned, he moved against the city of New Orleans. After being knocked from his horse by a cannonball, Packenham took his aide's mount and was shortly thereafter shot in the chest and throat.

GLC03529

4 July 1816

Tanner, Benjamin (1775-1848)

Engraving

Title: MacDonough's victory on Lake Champlain, and Defeat of the British Army at Plattsburg by Genl. Macomb, Sept. 11th. 1814.

Engraved and published by Tanner and printed by Rosner & Eskr. The defeat of the British at the Battle of Plattsburg thwarted Sir George Prevost's planned invasion of the United States through the Hudson Valley and strengthened the American bargaining position for peace in Ghent. The battle was one of the most decisive of the War of 1812.

GLC02810

1818/11/26

Unknown

Engraving

Title: J.Q. Adams

Bust engraving of John Quincy Adams. Numeric date refers to date found on GLC04823.01.

GLC04823.02

1818/11/26

Unknown

Engraving

Title: James Monroe

Bust engraving of James Monroe. Numeric date refers to date found on GLC04823.01.

GLC04823.05

1818/11/26

Unknown

Engraving

Title: [Engraving of James Monroe]

Portrait engraving of James Monroe, shown from chest up. Numeric date refers to date found on GLC04823.01.

GLC04823.03

28 January 1819

Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Co. and William Allen

Print

Title: The British surrendering their Arms to Gen: Washington...at York Town

Large black and white engraving. Title: "The British surrendering their Arms to Gen: Washington after their defeat at York Town in Virginia October 1781." Copper engraving by Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Co. and William Allen after a drawing by John Francis Renault. Renault is supposed to have been a participant at Yorktown, although the scene is highly allegorical.

GLC05861

circa 1820

Unknown

Engraving Signed

Title: Engraving of Washington Irving

One undated engraving of Washington Irving. Standing portrait of Irving. Signed by the subject of the portrait. A notation on the engraving notes "The Author of The 'Sketch Book'."

GLC08878.0314.01

circa 1820

Unknown

Engraving Signed

Title: Engraving of Washington Irving

One undated engraving of Washington Irving. Standing portrait of Irving.

GLC08878.0315

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