Sickel Hospital, Looking toward Fairfax Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia

January 5, 1865

Andrew Joseph Russell

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Andrew Joseph Russell

Artist, American, 1829 - 1902

The image shows an aerial view of a landscape with buildings and tents below. The foreground features large buildings with pitched roofs and smoke coming from chimneys. Beyond the buildings, rows of tents are neatly arranged. The landscape extends to a horizon with trees, fencing, and hills. The sky is clear and light-colored. The color scheme is mostly sepia or brown tones, resembling early photographs.

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Provenance

Culver Service, New York. (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 31 October 1989, lot 19); Perisho, Gettysburg, PA; NGA purchase, 2025.

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Inscriptions

lower center on mount printed in black ink on applied paper: SICKEL HOSPITAL / Looking toward Fairfax Seminary, January 5, 1865.; on verso, by unknown hand, top right in graphite: 123-7; center right in black crayon: 409 [circled] / 12; lower right Culver Service stamp in purple ink

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