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Return of a Foraging Party to Philippi (West Virginia)

Jasper Green (American, 1829–1910)
1861

Medium/Technique Graphite on paper
Dimensions Sheet: 21 x 29.7 cm (8 1/4 x 11 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number55.852
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné Karolik (Civil War) 0951
DescriptionReturning soldiers and dogs carrying and chasing squealing pigs. Large pillared house surrounded by pitched tents in background. See Harper's Weekly, August 17, 1861, p. 518; text p. 519.
InscriptionsInscribed along left side: Return of a foraging Party to Philippi.; lower center: Sketched by Jasper Green; upper left in partially erased graphite: 1/2 page
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA October 20, 1955