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JOHN EDWIN FORBES (1839-1895) Study of sharpshooters in a bunker.

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JOHN EDWIN FORBES (1839-1895) Study of sharpshooters in a bunker.

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JOHN EDWIN FORBES (1839-1895)
Study of sharpshooters in a bunker. Likely for Leslie's Illustrated" newspaper. Graphite on light blue-green paper. 176X228 mm; 7x9 inches, sheet. Initialed and dated "E.F. `66." in lower left image. Framed.Forbes was 22 when he joined the staff of Leslie's in 1861 as a reportorial artist, covering the course of the Civil War. After the war, he created a series of detailed etchings, which he published in 1891 as Thirty Years After: An Artist's Story of the Great War. This sketch, created a year after the Civil War ended, may have been a study for one of those works.

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