Reconnoisance [sic] of the Enemies position in front of Fairfax Ct....

CALL NUMBER:DRWG/US - Waud, no. 401 (A size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-USZC4-5241 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-14332 (b&w film copy neg.)
LC-USZ62-6995 (b&w film copy neg.)
No known restrictions on publication.

MEDIUM:1 drawing on green paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 24.3 x 37.7 cm. (sheet).

CREATED/PUBLISHED:1861 October 18.

CREATOR:

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

NOTES:

Signed lower right: Alfred R. Waud.

Title inscribed below image.

Some historian had said that the figure on the white horse is Waud, but this seems unlikely as Brady''s photograph has Waud with a full beard and this figure is clean shaven. It looks more like a cleric.

Published in: New York Illustrated News, April 12, 1862.

Sketch of house partially obscured by trees on verso.

Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file -- 1861.

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.401)

Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection.

SUBJECTS:

Fairfax Court House (Fairfax, Va.)--1860-1870.
Military officers--Union--1860-1870.
Troop movements--1860-1870.
Military reconnaissance--1860-1870.
Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military tactics.
United States--Virginia--Fairfax

FORMAT:

Drawings American 1860-1870.

PART OF:Civil War drawing collection

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:(color film copy transparency) cph 3g05241
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a16597
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a09655

CARD #:2004660815

Pop Art Machine Code: cph-3g00000-3g05000-3g05200-3g05241