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Drawings & Sketches

79,224 works

Pencil sketch of Civil War scenes: a trestle railroad bridge, soldiers reading a newspaper, camp life, and grave markers.

Scenes near Richmond

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of soldiers and horses in a field at dusk, with a smoke-wreathed farmhouse on the right and troops advancing.

Scene at the late reconnaissance at Morton Ford (night)

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of a sailor on sentry duty seen from behind, holding a rifle, looking out over calm water with a distant boat.

Sailor on Sentry

Alfred Waud, 1860

Charcoal and chalk sketch of a seated officer receiving a report from a standing soldier beside a cannon.

Sheridan receiving reports after the battle Sept. 19

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of a storehouse with stacked crates, barrels, a hand cart and two figures walking down the aisle.

Sheridans Army. Quarter Master Stores. Harpers Ferry

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil drawing of a winding river through a broad valley of rolling hills, with distant mountains and a lone pine in the fore

Shenandoah Valley from Maryland Heights

Alfred Waud, 1864

Sawyer. Renshaw

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a standing man facing armored soldiers, one raising a sword, with a hat on the ground.

Scene with conquistadors

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a road beside a post office with figures on the sidewalk and trees and a hillside on the right.

Saint Dennis Post-office, Baltimore County, Maryland

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of the Gettysburg seminary on a hill with fields, a wagon, and mounted soldiers in the foreground.

Seminary nr. Gettysburg used as a hospital, scene of Reynolds fight with Longstreet the first day

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of riverboats, barges, soldiers and a wheelbarrow scene in an oval, with handwritten notes.

Scenes associated with Dutch Gap Canal

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of a uniformed rider in a wide-brimmed hat on a galloping horse, inscribed 'Sheridans Ride'.

Sheridans ride

Alfred Waud, 1864

Charcoal and chalk sketch of soldiers advancing across a smoky field, with mounted officers and a handwritten caption about t

Sept. 19th. Crook's Corps storming the fort. Battle of Opequon - 2nd battle of Winchester

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of a mounted officer waving his hat while soldiers with rifles march across a field during battle.

Sheridan's Ride. Battle of Cedar Creek

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of a buckskin-clad hunter gesturing to a top-hatted man holding a rifle, watched by a crowd in an interior.

Seth Kinman, the California hunter presenting the president an Elkhorn chair

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of a sandy shore with dunes, palms, small figures and distant ships on the horizon, Folly Island, 1863.

Sea Shore-Folly Island, S.C. May 1863

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of a crowded columned corridor with women in crinoline dresses and men in frock coats, with a handwritten note

Scene in the corridor, outside the Japanese apartments at Willards showing one of the princes the use of the microsco…

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of covered wagons and soldiers on a road through rolling hills, with trees and a building on the horizon.

Sailors Creek 2nd Corps

Alfred Waud, 1865

Pencil sketch of soldiers with cannon and mounted riders in a field, a shell bursting overhead, with handwritten notes.

Shelling the rebel works on the Chickahominy across the Mechanicsville bridge

Alfred Waud, 1862

Seven bust portraits

Alfred Waud, 1860

Graphite sketch of a bearded man in uniform and kepi seen from behind, holding a sword, on grey paper.

Single figure in uniform, seen from the rear

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a standing cavalry soldier in a buttoned uniform and tall shako hat, with a sabre and cap beside him.

Sketches of soldiers wearing the 7th New York Cavalry regiment uniform

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil sketch of men at a sick call, one soldier seated with a cane, others standing in a tent, labeled Doctor Boyd.

Sick call-Doctor Boyd

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a flooded river plain with bare trees, fallen rails, and three soldiers at right under a cloudy sky.

Skinkers Neck on the Rappahannock below Fredericksburg, VA

Alfred Waud, 1862

Small sailboat and rowboats

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a wooden signal station with observers on its platform, horses and figures in the field below.

Signal Station. Pony Mt.

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of a stormy shoreline with three figures in coats in the foreground and a wreck on the rocks.

Shipwreck

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a ship's deck with two masts, rigging, an arched deckhouse, a lantern, and a boat bow in the foreground.

Ship's deck

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketches on green paper of several men reclining and seated in relaxed poses, with studies of heads and feet.

Sketches of figures in repose

Alfred Waud, 1865

Pencil and chalk sketch of a log signal station with a flag on a wooded hilltop, with stumps and fallen logs in the foregroun

Signal Station on Maryland heights highest point occupied by the army

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of uniformed men practicing single stick and rifle drill, with handwritten captions.

Single stick exercise

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of two uniformed men signalling with a lamp at night beside a wrecked boat on a shoreline.

Signalling by night

Alfred Waud, 1860