A Night March, Plate 16 from "Life Studies of the Great Army"
1876 · Etching
Sheet: 18 5/8 × 23 7/16 in. (47.3 × 59.6 cm)
Plate: 12 13/16 × 17 11/16 in. (32.5 × 45 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Edwin Forbes
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Edwin Forbes was an American printmaker and illustrator whose detailed engravings and lithographs documented the American Civil War with uncommon immediacy and reportorial precision. Working primarily in the 1860s, he produced eyewitness accounts of battle scenes, military camps, and soldier life that circulated widely through newspapers and print portfolios. His technical mastery of line and tonal gradation gave his compositions a sense of urgency and spatial depth that distinguished them from contemporary war imagery. Forbes' prints remain among the most vivid visual records of the conflict from a soldier's vantage point.
Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 40% · Updated 15d ago
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