Infernal Machines,Potomac Creek,Explosive,American Civil War,Alfred R. Waud

Title: Infernal machines discovered in the Potomac [near Aquia] Creek by the flotilla ...
Creator(s): Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist
Date Created/Published: [1861 July 7]
Summary: Detail of explosive device in foreground, scene of discovery in background.
Notes:
Title inscribed above image.
Inscribed above image: Infernal machines discovered in the Potomac [near Aquia] Creek by the flotilla for whose destruction they were intended. Sketched by A. Waud from a photograph by James F. Gibson.
Inscribed right with arrow leading to a frigate: Pawnee. Inscribed vertically left margin: gunboat Freeborn / Capt Ward.
Published with descriptive text in: New York Illustrated News, July 22, 1861, p. 177 (Cover).
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.0159).
Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file P.
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Subjects:
Ward, James Harmon,--1806-1861--Military service.
Thomas Freeborn (Gunboat)--1860-1870.
Pawnee (Screw sloop)--1860-1870.
Ships--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations.
United States--Virginia--Potomac River
Drawings--American--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2004661201/
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