He produced hundreds of scenes of the United States, Northern Europe, the Holy Land, and Egypt, many of which were reproduced in popular magazines of the day. Woodward, was one of the country's "best-known painters and illustrators". Mackinac follows with wood engravings after paintings and sketches by J. The text includes the last part of The Lower Mississippi, w/ engravings. After the War, he continued his career as a painter and book illustrator, and as a sculptor, completed a commission, Soldiers and Sailors Monument. It has been written that he devoted most of his spare time to drawing and painting his fellow soldiers, and he is credited for providing valuable visual records of the War from the perspective of a Southerner. Sheppard enlisted in the Civil War in the Army of Northern Virginia, reaching the rank of engineering officer. Born in Richmond, Virginia, William Sheppard was a watercolorist, illustrator, teacher, and painter.
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Prefatory to the text is a full page steel engraving of "Washington from Arlington Heights," engraved by Robert Hinshelwood after a painting by W. This was one of several parts which were sold by subscription the buyer being responsible for having all the sets bound by their bookbinder.
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