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Drawings & Sketches

79,343 works

Pencil sketch of the ironclad Patapsco engaging a fort battery on water, with smoke from its stack and a flag at left.

Patapsco engaging Sullivans Id. Batteries

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of a furnished parlor with draped curtains, sofa, tables, mirror and framed pictures, with handwritten notes.

Parlor, Abraham Lincoln home, Springfield, Illinois

Alfred Waud, 1865

Pencil sketch of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat, looking to the side, on lined paper with a handwritten caption.

Our English guerrilla. Culpepper

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of the tug McQueen and rowboats recovering floating bodies from choppy water, with sailboats in the distance.

Picking up the floating bodies. The Tug McQueen picking up the body of Capt. Jack Wilson

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of an officer pointing to a bearded man lying in a cot in a tent, with soldiers standing at left.

Officer pointing to man in bed in a tent

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a flat riverside landscape with trees and distant buildings, inscribed 'opposite Dutch Gap'.

Opposite Dutch Gap

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of a two-story wooden pilot house with a shingled roof, surrounded by palm trees and tall grass.

Pilots house St. Johns river. 1864

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of an officer and a private soldier in uniform with a rifle and bedroll, with handwritten notes.

Officer and private of a Rhode Island regiment

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a soldier behind a stake fortification in tall grass, with a flagpole and distant figures on a ridge.

Picket in front of Ft. Mahone

Alfred Waud, 1865

Pencil sketch of soldiers with a cannon, wagon wheel and tents in a military camp, inscribed Petersburg Sept. 1864.

Petersburg Sept. 1864

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of a field gun on a wooden carriage with two flags, upright cannon barrels, and a tent, 1861.

Old guns in arsenal

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil and wash sketch of a standing officer in uniform and kepi reading a letter, with a sword at his side.

Officer reading a letter

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch on brown paper of a mounted soldier with a rifle and hat, with a small study of another figure above.

Outpost

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of two men beside a table in front of a farmhouse with a chimney and outbuildings, on grey-green paper.

Old Man Eddington. The old homestead

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch on brown paper of a sea coast howitzer and a Whitworth gun with handwritten labels for Ft. Wagner and Charlesto

Old Sea coast howitzer, Ft. Wagner. Whitworth gun, Charleston

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of an officer in a hat raising a sword while climbing over a pole, on a tan paper background.

Officer climbing a flagpole, sword in hand

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of wagons and horses on a march past trees and railroad tracks, captioned On the march to Gettysburg.

On the march to Gettysburg, Warrenton Junction

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of a standing sailor beside detailed drawings of a steam frigate's machinery, rigging and paddle wheel.

On the Susquehannah steam frigate

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of two men talking, a soldier, a man carrying a bundle, and a dog, with a handwritten caption.

Prince de Joinville sketching near Cumberland

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketches of several bearded men on tan paper, with handwritten names and newspaper affiliations beside the heads.

Portraits of correspondents

Pencil sketch of soldiers at earthworks overlooking rolling fields, with marching columns and horsemen in the distance.

Rebel earthworks commanding the passage at Germanna ford, abandoned on the approach of Meade's army

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of the steamboat Sykes on rough water with smoke, a rowboat of crew, and a sailing ship at right.

Quartermasters Tugboat Sykes, carrying mail off Mobile

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a paddle steamer with masts, rigging and a smokestack, drawn on brown paper.

Pocohontas

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch on blue paper of a bearded man in a wide hat leaning on a fence, with marsh and trees behind him.

Rebel guard

Alfred Waud, 1860

Prize brig captured at Hatteras Inlet

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil and chalk sketch of a Confederate earthwork with embrasures, a flag, and a soldier standing on the parapet.

Rebel works beyond Munsons Hill embrasured

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil sketch of a pontoon bridge over a river with moored ships, steamers, covered wagons, horses and soldiers.

Pontoon Bridge on the Appomattox below Petersburg-Point of Rocks-Butlers headquarters

Alfred Waud, 1864

Moonlit watercolor of a rowboat crossing a river while armed men stand on the bank beneath a tree, with hills behind.

Previous to Antietam. Rebels crossing the Potomac. Union scouts in foreground

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of soldiers running across a field with a mounted officer, a farmhouse and trees in the background.

Rebel prisoners captured in the charge of Gen. Wright's Corps-running in

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of a seated man in military uniform labeled Provost Marshal, with head and boot studies at left.

Portraits of Provost Marshal, McLean

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of two standing soldiers in long coats and caps, one holding an upright rifle, labeled Pioneers 8th N.Y., 1861.

Pioneers 8th N.Y. German rifles 1861

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil sketch of two sailing ships on choppy water under clouds, with a handwritten caption below.

Pocohontus (sic) capturing blockade runner Antonia. Mobile

Alfred Waud, 1860