ARTIST: Carl Nebel
PUBLISHER: Published by D. Appleton & Company, New York. Printed by printed by Lemercier, Paris.
MEDIUM: Lithograph handcolored,
DATE: 1851.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 10 7/8 x 16 3/4" (27.5 x 42.7 cm).
DESCRIPTION: Shows the assault of the city of Vera Cruz, with soldiers and cannons, by the U.S. army during the Mexican-American War. 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.
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CONDITION: Very good condition. Original hand coloring.
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