Prang's Civil War Pictures: The Complete Battle Chromos of Louis Prang

By: Holzer, Harold

During the 1880s, a German-born, Boston-based picture publisher successfully commissioned the most ambitious series of battle prints ever published. Louis Prang, best known as the father of the Christmas card, hired noted military and marine artists to create original scenes of combat, and then reproduced their works in a wildly popular portfolio of chromolithographs. He called the set Prang's War Pictures.

They were offered to an eager...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823221180
• ISBN13: 9780823221189
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 10.3"