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Creator	Davis, Theodore (1840-1894)
Title	Chattanooga from the Artists Camp
Alternate Title	Working at Easel
Date	1864
Genre	Drawings
Material/Technique	ink and wash on paper
Description	Black and white scene of a man standing at an easel on a wooded hillside in the lower right section of image. The landscape he is sketching has a river bend and a low hill.
Historical note	Theodore Davis and James Walker were two of the most prolific "Special Artists" working in the Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain area for Harpers Weekly and other publications during the Civil War. Here, Davis depicts a fellow artist, possibly Walker, painting a bend in the Tennessee River with the city of Chattanooga featured behind a low hill. After the Confederate defeats of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge in November 1863, the path to Atlanta was opened for Union forces, who would have been on the move in 1864. Wagons move across a pontoon bridge toward Chattanooga.
Subject	Chattanooga (Tenn.), Battle of; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Art and the war
Theme	Visualizing the War
Story	Samuel Palmer
Geographic Location	United States--Tennessee--Chattanooga; United States--Tennessee--Lookout Mountain
Time period	1860-1869
Language	eng
Rights	Images reproduced on this website are intended for individual, educational use only. Any reproduction, even for student use, should be labeled with the accompanying credit line as well as the name of the lending institution. Research inquiries about specific objects or requests for high resolution images must be sent directly to the institution that holds the item (i.e., "contributing institution").
Identifier	1991.044.003
Type	Still image
Format	image/jp2
Contributing Institution	Chattanooga History Center
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Archival file	shades3/shades_chc_0006.tif