| Creator |
Walter, Adam B., 1820-1875, engraver. |
| Contributor |
Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist. |
|
Dainty, John, publisher. |
| Title |
Woman's mission [graphic] / C. Schussele 1865; Painted by C. Schussele; Engraved by A.B. Walter. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia : Published by John Dainty 15 Sth 6th Str |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1865 |
| Date |
1865 |
| Physical Description |
1 print : engraving, aquatint, stipple, and line ; sheet 41 x 51 cm (16 x 20 in.) |
| Description |
Genre print showing Union women volunteers, in plain clothes, aiding soldiers within a tent. In the central foreground, a
seated volunteer comforts a soldier, lying in a cot, his head bandaged, and a pen and paper resting on his blanket. The aid
worker pats him with one hand and holds a book in the other. Across from the soldier's knapsack, rifle, and tin cup, a dog
watches nearby, his head resting on the soldiers blanketed legs. In the right, another young woman volunteer stands with a
basket over her arm. In the left, an older volunteer offers a bowl of food to another soldier, still in uniform, and also
lying on a cot under a window flap. Also shows crates of supplies of the "Ladies Aid Mission" piled and open. In the left
background, male aid workers assisting soldiers on the grounds are visible through the tent opening.
|
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Date from copyright statement. |
|
Artist's signature lower left. |
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To the patriotic and benevolent ladies of the Union who by their devoted services aided their country in its trying hour and
comforted its brave defenders this print is respectfully dedicated.
|
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Passage from Sir Walter Scott's "Marimon Canto vi. Stanza 30" printed below the image: Oh woman in our hours of ease, uncertain,
coy and hard to please, and variable as the shade. By the light quivering aspen made, when pain and anguish wring the brow,
a ministering angel thou.
|
|
Gift of David Doret. |
| Subject |
Dogs. |
|
Medical aspects of war -- United States. |
|
Soldiers -- American. |
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Tents. |
|
Women -- United States. |
| Geographic subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Casualties. |
|
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical aspects. |
|
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military personnel. -- Union. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- War work. |
|
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women. |
| Genre |
Genre prints -- 1860-1870. |
|
Engravings -- 1860-1870. |
| Printer |
Dainty, John, publisher. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadephia| Print Department| *GC - Civil War - Hospitals - W [P.2009.17.7] |
| Accession number |
P.2009.17.7 |
