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"Battle of Gettysburg, Repulse of Longstreet's Assault" John B. Bachelder, 1876

$3,500List Price

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This is the 1876 steel engraving arranged and published by renowned Civil War historian John B. Bachelder. The H. B. Hall, Jr. engraving is based on a painted by James Walker and features the climatic battle of the three days – James Longstreet’s frontal assault against the Union center at Cemetery Hill. This advance, ultimately repulsed with huge losses, marked the “high-water mark of the Confederacy” and has a strong claim to being the turning point of the Civil War. John Bachelder (1825-1894) was an American painter, photographer and historian. Within days of the battle he traveled to Gettysburg, where he spent months traversing the field, making sketches, and interviewing participants and witnesses. Later that year he published Gettysburg Battle-Field, a spectacular and detailed bird’s-eye view. Intellectually engaged by the challenge of reconstructing the complex events of those three days in July, and deeply committed to honoring the sacrifices of those who fought there, he spent the next 30 years researching the battle down to its most minute details. This entailed corresponding with hundreds of Union and Confederate officers and ultimately enabled him to produce a 2500-page manuscript account, as well as a number of remarkable maps and prints. In the late 1860s Bachelder commissioned painter James Walker to execute a monumental (7 ½ by 20 foot!) painting of the battle. He selected the most epic subject possible: the assault by 12,000 men of Longstreet’s First Corps against the Union center, now known somewhat misleadingly as “Pickett’s Charge” (Pickett was but one of several Confederate division commanders involved.) “From the grand assault of Longstreet’s command, on the third day of the battle, the Confederate army retired bloodily repulsed and forever broken; Lee’s army never again recovered from the blow which it here received. The repulse of Longstreet’s charge was consequently not only the decisive episode of this decisive battle, but of the war; for this reason, the designer of this painting has chosen it as the subject.” The painting was exhibited in 1869-70 in Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, where it met with much approbation. It is now owned by the Johnson Collection and resides in Spartanburg, South Carolina. As early as 1870 and likely earlier, Bachelder planned to have the painting rendered as a commercial print. A subscription form, included in an archive also offered by his firm, demonstrates that his original intention was for the image to be executed as a lithograph, but he soon rethought this plan and shifted to a steel engraving. The print adopts a perspective from the Union rear and encompasses most of the battlefield, from Big Round top on the left to the northern reaches of Cemetery Ridge on the right. The Confederate lines at Seminary Ridge are in the far distance, partially obscured by bursting shells. The image centers on the focal point of the Confederate assault, in the vicinity of what today are known as “The Copse” and “The Bloody Angle.” The composition has elements of a classic triptych, with Meade and his officers dominating the center, flanked on either side by artillery advancing into the fray. These are set against the whirlwind of battle, with Union units rushing forward to meet the Confederate advance and dead and wounded men and horses and debris scattered on the field. Consistent with Bachelder’s exhaustive research, both the painting and print were designed to be minutely accurate: Though they are necessarily compressed in time, Bachelder sought to present faithfully the events themselves and the locations at which they occurred. In the production of this picture, Mr. Walker has endeavored to weave into an harmonious whole, the prominent incidents and episodes of this portion of the battle, and has never resorted to fiction, when truth would do as well. No stretch of the imagination has been indulged in. The material for its composition has been furnished him by me and arranged under my direction that the execution is highly artistic, in spite of the fact that effect has been sacrificed in many instances to accuracy, the ablest art critics have acknowledged.

Dimensions:
Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 40 in (101.6 cm)Depth: 2.5 in (6.35 cm)
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
1870-1879
Date of Manufacture:
1876
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Colorado Springs, CO
Reference Number:
Seller: PR0601stDibs: LU90974634523

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