Prang's Civil War Pictures: The Complete Battle Chromos of Louis Prang
During the 1880s, a German-born, Boston-based picture publisher successfully commissioned the most ambitious series of battle prints ever published. Louis Prang, best known as the father of the Christmas card, hired noted military and marine artists to create original scenes of combat, and then reproduced their works in a wildly popular portfolio of chromolithographs. He called the set Prang's War Pictures.They were offered to an eager public accompanied by descriptive texts that told the story of each engagement through eyewitness recollection by the heroes of each action. The set proved both appealing and influential, selling vigorously in…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8232-2118-9
- EAN: 9780823221189
- Produktnummer: 9416980
- Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Masse: H26.1 cm x B18.2 cm x D1.9 cm 703 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 16
- Gewicht: 703
Über den Autor
Harold Holzer is Roger Hertog Fellow at the New-York Historical Society and one of the nation's leading authorities on Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. He is chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and has written, co-written, or edited forty-seven books, most recently Lincoln and the Power of the Press.
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