The General (Grant) in Powell's Battery, Vicksburg ‘63

Theodore Russell Davis (American, 1840–1894)

1863

Medium/Technique Pen and ink on paper

Dimensions Sheet: 12.3 x 21.3 cm (4 13/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875

Accession Number59.928

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné Karolik (Civil War) 0937

DescriptionGrant and officer seated in foreground by cannon, other cannons ranged to left. See Harper's Weekly, July 4, 1863, p. 420.

InscriptionsSigned center left: Theo./R. Davis; Inscribed lower left: The General in / Powell's Battery / Vicksburg '65

ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA November 12, 1959