File:Jefferson davis fort monroe capture.jpg

TITLE: The casemate, Fortress Monroe, Jeff Davis in prison

CALL NUMBER: DRWG/US - Waud, no. 275 (A size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-1157 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZCN4-273 (color film copy neg.) LC-USZ62-15660 (b&w film copy neg.) No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY: Two guards stand in Davis' cell, while the prisoner sits on his bed.

MEDIUM: 1 drawing on tan paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 14.8 x 24.0 cm. (sheet).

CREATED/PUBLISHED: [1865]

CREATOR:

Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist.

NOTES:

Signed lower left of image: ARW.

Title inscribed lower right.

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.275)

Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection.

SUBJECTS:

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889--Capture and imprisonment. Prison facilities--1860-1870. Guards--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners--Confederate. Fort Monroe (Va.)--1860-1870. United States--Virginia

FORMAT:

Portraits 1860-1870. Drawings American 1860-1870.

PART OF: Civil War drawing collection

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency) cph 3b52663 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b52663 (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a17902 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a17902

CARD #: 2004660790

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