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A Bit of War History: The Contraband
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A Bit of War History: The Contraband

Thomas Waterman Wood

1865

Medium

Oil on canvas

Tags

FirearmsMenPortraitsAmerican Civil War

Dimensions

28 1/4 x 20 1/4 in. (71.8 x 51.4 cm) (framed with 84.12b and 84.12c)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1884

Department

The American Wing

Culture

American

Rights

Public Domain

About Thomas Waterman Wood

1823–1903 • United States

American, Montpelier, Vermont 1823–1903 New York

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