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Drawings & Sketches

79,475 works

Pencil sketch of a paddle steamer with masts and paddle wheel, smaller boats, a domed building, and handwritten vessel names.

Daylight (and) J.H. Spaulding

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a wooden cotton press with a long angled lever arm, labeled Cotton press at the bottom.

Cotton press

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch on brown paper of a ship's deck, rigging and fittings, with a smaller hull study below.

Constellation

Alfred Waud, 1860

Sketch of a battlefield at dusk with dead horses, artillery wagons, advancing soldiers and an exploding shell.

Confederates advancing to the capture of disabled guns. Gaines Mills

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of a standing soldier with rifle and flags, with other figures in background, on brown paper.

Confeds surrendering muskets and colors

Alfred Waud, 1865

Watercolor landscape of rolling fields, tree clusters, and distant mountains under a cloudy sky, with handwritten notes below

Dalton looking East to Cohutta Mts.

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of a small town with buildings, bare trees and railroad tracks in the foreground, on tan paper.

Culpepper, Va.

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil and chalk sketch of mounted riders on a grassy field beside a river, with bare trees under a streaked sky.

Corbins Neck on the Rappahannock

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of soldiers with rifles crossing a wooden bridge over a river toward a wooded hillside.

Crossing on the Pamunkey-at Hanover Ferry

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of soldiers moving along a covered trench through trees and an open field, 1864.

Covered way 5th Corps

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of cavalry charging across a field, capturing prisoners near trees, with infantry advancing in the background.

Custer's div. cavalry capturing prisoners nr. Turnpike

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of a group of people gathered near a tent and tall tree at Newport News, 1861.

Contrabands, Newport News, 1861

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil sketch of Confederate soldiers dragging a cannon up a grassy hillside, with handwritten caption at top.

Confederates dragging guns up Kenesaw

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketches on lined paper: a large study of a balding older man's head and several small figures in gestures.

Convention 1861

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil sketch of a mounted rider on a galloping horse beside a rearing horse, with handwritten caption below.

Death of Reynolds Gettysburg

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of a rocky hillside with shrubs and a distant ridge on tan paper, by Alfred Waud, 1864.

Dug Gap

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of a dirt street lined with fences, houses and trees, with a church steeple in the distance under clouds.

Entrance to Gettysburg-sharpshooting from the houses

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of a paddle steamer with masts, sails and smokestacks, with a small rowboat below.

Dirijo (sic), wrecker

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a double-ended steamboat with two masts on calm water, captioned double ender on James River, 1864.

Double ender on James River, Nov. 1864

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch on brown paper of figures with rifles among trees and rough ground, labeled Dug Gap.

Dug Gap

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil and wash sketch of shells bursting over enemy rifle pits while soldiers aim rifles from a trench.

Effects of shells upon the enemies rifle pits at the crossing over the Rappahannock-June 5th

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of soldiers and horses dragging artillery guns through muddy water at night, a fallen horse in the foreground.

Dragging up the guns on the recent reconnoisance (sic) in force (night)

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of uniformed soldiers in caps drilling with rifles in an interior hall.

Drilling with rifles

Alfred Waud, 1860

Brown wash drawing of a locomotive falling from a wooden trestle bridge into a river, smoke rising, trees beside it.

Destruction of the locomotives on the bridge over the Chickahominy

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch on blue-green paper of a mounted rider herding cattle through tall grass beneath trees.

Driving in cows

Alfred Waud, 1860

Sketch of soldiers retreating across a field with artillery smoke and a mounted officer, Civil War battle scene.

Defeat of the Army of Genl. Pope at Manassas on the Old Bull run battle ground

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of broken telegraph poles and tangled wire lying on the ground, with trees in the background.

Destruction of bridge telegraph tanks Etc. in Warrenton Junction

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of soldiers and figures outdoors, with handwritten notes reading 'Drummed out' and 'sketch'.

Drummed out

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil and chalk sketch of figures among railway tracks, with water tanks and engine houses burning under a smoky sky.

Destruction of Water Tanks & Engines & engine houses for pumping water into them at Jarrets Station

Alfred Waud, 1864

Graphite and chalk drawing of soldiers finding a body on rocks beside a wide river under a cloudy sky.

Discovering the bodies of the slain in the Potomac river

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil sketch of a kepi-wearing soldier holding a flagstaff with a flag, with a horse partly visible below, on grey paper.

Equestrian standard bearer

Alfred Waud, 1860

Charcoal sketch of three uniformed soldiers talking beside a tree in woods, with handwritten caption about an engineer office

Engineer officer examining roads outside the lines

Alfred Waud, 1863