Luca Stefano Cristini

Civil War sketch book - Vol. 4: Illustrations by Alfred Rudolph Waud - Landscape Books Luca Stefano Cristini

Alfred Waud was a British-born American illustrator whose lively and detailed sketches of scenes from the Civil War captured the war's dramatic intensity and furnished him with a reputation as one of the preeminent war-artist of his era. After presenting Metzner's and Forbes' jobs, this fourth volume is dedicated to one of the only two artist present at the Battle fo Gettysburg, and the only eyewitness of Pickett's Charge, in 96 pages full of illustrations, some of which have been colored for the very first time.