Details
Creator Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver.
Contributor Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer.
Title Horatio Gates Sickel. Brev. Maj. Gen. U.S. Vols. [graphic] / Photo. by F. Gutekunst. Engd by J.C. Buttre. N.Y.
Publisher [New York] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1865
Date [ca. 1865]
Physical Description 1 print : engraving ; sheet 23 x 27 cm (9 x 10.5 in.)
Description Half-length portrait of the Union Army officer. Sickel, wearing a mustache and goatee with his hair parted to the left and attired in his Union Army uniform, faces slightly left.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Facsimile signature of sitter printed below image.
Gift of David Doret.
Biographical / historical note Buttre, a prolific New York portrait painter and engraver, published later in his career, a three volume set of celebrity portraiture, "American Portrait Gallery," in 1877, which was reissued from 1880-1881.
Subject Sickel, Horatio Gates, 1817-1890 -- Portraits.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military personnel -- Union.
Genre Engravings -- 1860-1870.
Portrait prints -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.32]
Accession number P.2019.64.32