Artist Edwin Forbes, American, 1839-1895
Title
  • The Reveille on the Line of Battle (and) Tattoo in Camp
  • Life Studies of the Great Army (series title)
Date ca. 1876
Medium etching printed in brown ink on wove paper
Dimensions Plate: 13 × 18 inches (33 × 45.7 cm)
Sheet: 17 1/4 × 22 1/4 inches (43.8 × 56.5 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Harry W. Longstaff
Accession Number F74.61.1
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed, in plate, lower left of the lower image: E. Forbes
Signed, in pencil, lower left: Mrs Edwin Forbes
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, lower center of upper image: The revielle.
Inscribed, below lower image, lower left: Copy-righted 1876, by E. Forbes
Inscribed, lower center: Tattoo.
Mrs. Harry W. Longstaff;
1974-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)