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Alfred R. Waud (1828-1891). Gouache and charcoal sketch, 14.125 x 2.25 in. (sight). New Earthworks, Camp behind the trees, Battery at Shipping Point (half moon shape), Entrance to Quantico Creek. N.d., ca 1861. Framed with engraved print, 14.25 x 10.25 in. (sight). The Rebel Batteries on the Potomac Now in Possession of Our Troops. Published in Harper's Weekly March 22, 1862. Matted and framed to 20.25 x 20 in. An original sketch by battlefield artist Waud of the rebel batteries taken as part of the blockade of the Potomac. Included side by side with the engraved triptych print created from the print. Noted battlefield artist Alfred R. Waud (1828-1891) was born and raised in London, where he attended the Government School of Design at Somerset House before immigrating to the United States in 1850. Upon his arrival, Waud worked primarily as a freelance artist until May of 1861 when he was retained as a sketch artist and special correspondent by the New York Illustrated Newspaper to report on the war. At the close of 1861, Waud joined Harper's Weekly, where he was employed through the end of the war. He continued to work for Harper's Weekly in addition to a number of other publishers following the war and his career flourished. While touring battlefields in the South in 1891, Waud died in Marietta, GA. The Library of Congress houses most of his original wartime sketches, with some remaining in private hands.