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Drawings & Sketches

79,358 works

Pencil sketch of a spindle-post bed with pillows and bedding, inscribed 'Lincolns death bed'.

Lincoln's death bed

Alfred Waud, 1865

Pencil sketch of Mayport Mills, Florida, showing wooden buildings, a tall smokestack, and palm trees on open ground.

Mayport Mills, Florida

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a hill beyond tree lines, with two men walking a road in the foreground, labeled Lost Mtn.

Lost Mountain

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of a man in a wide-brimmed hat holding a rifle, peering around a tree trunk on tan paper.

Man with rifle peering around tree

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch on brown paper of a camp with tents and a log cabin under hills and clouds.

Manassas gap

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of a log cabin with a chimney, a tall tree and a split-rail fence in the foreground.

Log cabin beside tree and rail fence

Alfred Waud, 1861

Minnesota

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of Mount Vernon in 1861, showing the estate house and outbuildings above a line of trees.

Mt. Vernon, 1861

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil sketch of the warship Minnesota with masts and rigging in a harbor, surrounded by rowboats and smaller sailing vessels

Minnesota

Alfred Waud, 1860

Nipsic

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a town street with church towers, marching soldiers with rifles, and onlookers near a fence.

Middletown M.D. near South Mountain

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil and wash sketch of soldiers, horses, and wagons in a hazy field with figures lying on the ground.

Near the cemetery, Gettysburg retiring disabled artillery

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of soldiers, horses and a wagon before a columned plantation house with figures on the steps.

Military encampment at plantation house

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of soldiers in formation across an open landscape with mounted officers and hills in the distance.

McClellan reviewing his troops near Baileys Cross Roads

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil sketch of a hill with a ruined structure, bare trees and a flock of birds over open land.

Nr. Brandy

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of soldiers advancing across a field under drifting smoke, with fallen figures in the foreground and trees beyo

McClellan looking at the fight

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of Newcastle, Delaware waterfront with town buildings, a church spire, and boats on the water below.

Newcastle, Del.

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a small wooden church with a bell tower framed by willow trees, a ladder and wagon wheel in front, water bey

Negro Church, Smith's Plantation, Port Royal Isl'd, S.C.

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketches of three monitor-type warships in side elevation with turrets and smokestacks on tan paper.

Monitors

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of uniformed officers and horses in a field with cannon, overlooking a wide wooded landscape under clouds.

McClellan reconnoitering the Turnpike to Richmond from the Peach Orchard at Mechanicsville

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch on tan paper of a dead horse lying on rocky ground, with a handwritten title at the bottom left.

Mementos of the Battlefield

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of Norfolk Navy Yard with waterfront sheds, a large building, rowboats, and smoke rising behind.

Norfolk Navy Yard, after the rebels departure

Alfred Waud, 1862

Mr. L.W. Clark

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a sidewheel steamship in oblique view with paddle wheel, smokestack and rigging on grey paper.

Oblique view of sidewheel steamship

Alfred Waud, 1860

Sketch of a military camp with white tents, a covered wagon, and soldiers with rifles on a muddy road.

Near Falmouth, Jany. 1863

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch sheet with studies of figures in hats and long dresses, with the word Natives written at lower right.

Natives

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a wrecked sailing ship on a sandy Carolina shoreline with small figures and a flat horizon.

On the Carolina coast nr. Hatteras

Alfred Waud, 1861

Sketch of mounted pickets on a hillside with drifting smoke and church spires in the distance, drawn on tan paper.

Pickets-Near Fredericksburg

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of a three-masted warship in side view with rigging, beside a quay, plus small sketches of steamers and boats.

Ohio

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil and chalk sketch of soldiers digging breastworks with bayonets and pans on a smoky battlefield, a flag behind them.

On Hancocks front- the soldiers ha(ving) no picks and shovels used bayonets, tin pans, old canteens, and even their h…

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of a wood-frame house with brick chimney beside a large tree and picket fence, Washington 1862.

On 7th St. Washington, Blenkers headquarters

Alfred Waud, 1862

Charcoal and chalk sketch of soldiers and mounted troops in a battlefield with smoke bursts over a rolling field.

Part of Ward's line, Kershaw attacking

Alfred Waud, 1863