The Old Print Shop

Battle of Buena Vista.

  • ARTIST: Carl Nebel

  • PUBLISHER: Published by D. Appleton & Company, New York. Printed by printed by Lemercier, Paris.

  • MEDIUM: Lithograph handcolored,

    DATE: 1851.

  • EDITION SIZE: 10 7/8 x 16 3/4" (27.5 x 42.7 cm) plus title and margins.

  • DESCRIPTION: Showing the U.S. army using its artillery power to fend off extensive Mexican forces at the battle of Buena Vista in the Mexican-American War, February 22-23, 1847. This view appeared in the portfolio “The War Between the United States and Mexico, Illustrated. Embracing Pictorial Drawings of All the Principal Conflicts by Carl Nebel, . . . With a Description of Each Battle, By Geo. Wilkins Kendall.” Kendall was the editor of the New Orleans newspaper “Daily Picayune” and traveled with the army as a war correspondent. He hired Nebel to create the twelve images that would be used to make prints to illustrate the book. Many consider this work to be most beautiful nineteenth-century publication relating to the early history of Texas.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Very good condition. Original hand coloring.

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