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Title
General Grant & his family
Creator
Schell, Frederic B., artist
Sartain, Samuel, 1830-1906, artist
Daughaday & Becker, publisher
Contributor
Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1868
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information
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Description
Image of a family portrait of Union General Ulysses S. Grant in military uniform on horseback and his family posed before the White House in Washington, D.C., with the United States Capitol building in the far distance; his family consists of a son in military uniform on horseback, a daughter on a pony, a dog, and his wife Julia Dent Grant standing with two sons.
"Designed by Fred. B. Schell."--text, bottom left margin. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1868. By Daughaday & Becker. In the clerk's office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."--text, bottom center margin. "Engraved by Samuel Sartain."--text, bottom right margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 engraving : uncolored ; overall 39.85 x 30.8 cm (15 11/16 x 12 1/8 in.)
Identifier
priJLC_MIL_001228
491173
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4055
Language
English
Subject
Children--Pictorial works
Families--Pictorial works
Generals--United States--Pictorial works
Grant, Julia Dent, 1826-1902--Pictorial works
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885--Pictorial works
Washington (D.C.)--Pictorial works
Intaglio prints--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Portrait prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Washington (D.C.)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection
Military
Large Size
American Civil War
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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