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Battle of Fredericksburg
- Creator:
- Louis Prang, Thure de Thulstrup
- Location:
- Massachusetts, Boston
- Origin Date:
- 1886
- Materials:
- paper
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.081.1340
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Fine Art
Description
Chromolithograph depicts the Battle of Fredericksburg. Groups of Union soldiers row boats across a river toward the opposite bank, where Confederate soldiers await. A small town dots the landscape in the background. For more information on this and other Prang Civil War chromolithographs, see Prang's Civil War Pictures: the Complete Battle Chromos of Louis Prang with the Full "Descriptive Texts" edited and with an introduction by Harold Holzer. Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum