Artist/Maker
W. Kehn
Elaborate Burial Scene with Coffin Being Lowered into the Ground; affixed to verso: print of Columbia, South Carolina, State House
ca. 1861
Graphite on beige paper, with image cancelled with an X; verso has a print affixed
Overall: 8 5/8 x 12 in. (21.9 x 30.5 cm)
James B. Wilbur Fund
1945.580.62
DescriptionCivil War Drawings Collection. Only verso print engraved for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 17 August 1861(XII:300):215.InscribedSigned and inscribed at lower right in graphite: "W. Kehn. Cin. O."; at lower left: "not used --"; laid on verso silhouetted print of the New State House, Columbia South Carolina; inscribed at upper center in brown ink: "Columbia, South Carolina"; at upper right in graphite: "used"
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
Unidentified artist
14 September 1861
1945.580.1
Unidentified artist
May 1861
1945.580.29
Unidentified artist
1861-65
1945.580.73
Unidentified artist
February 18, 1865
1945.580.61