Devil's Den 1863 sketch

[noman]

http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/main/index.php?q=node/40916

What is that structure in the background right? Part of the John Rose Farm?

 

[E_just_E]

http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/main/index.php?q=node/40916

What is that structure in the background right? Part of the John Rose Farm?

That is total fantasy. So are the pine/spruce/evergreen trees. Gee. That probably should be a west view and there was not a building there. And (as anyone who have been at the place should know) there was no evergreen forest there I suspect that South Mountain is in the background (not-to-scale or visible from there)

 

[Poor Private]

easy enugh to solve the problem. Pine trees are alot easier to draw than decidious ones. Especially if you have a deadline to meet.

 

[pamc153PA]

http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/main/index.php?q=node/40916

What is that structure in the background right? Part of the John Rose Farm?

Hard to tell just what anything in the drawing is. It helps to have it titled as Devil's Den, but apparently he either never was at DD, or forgot what he saw there when he was. The big slanty rock on the right of the pile on top kind of looks like Table Rock, but the rest is fabrication, pine trees, building in the background, and the fact that it was "the most terrible fight of the three days' battle."

 

[reading48]

Just his rendition of what may be soldiers told him... Reality, It looks nothing like D/D.. should look like...

 

[Dave G]

It appears to be looking south from Devil's Den toward the Slyder Farm. It sort of looks like photo #102 in Frassanito's Early Photography at Gettysburg except they have thinned out the trees so you can see the farm. They also took a little extra imagination with the Round Tops' location.

 

[E_just_E]

It appears to be looking south from Devil's Den toward the Slyder Farm. It sort of looks like photo #102 in Frassanito's Early Photography at Gettysburg except they have thinned out the trees so you can see the farm. They also took a little extra imagination with the Round Tops' location.

I think that you got something there, but those are not the Round Tops. They will be the Hills South of Gettysburg.

Original image:

A couple of different perspectives of the Slyder Farm from the Devil's Den:

Can Kinda see the similarities, but there still are a lot of inaccuracies. Maybe it is drawn from memory?

 

[MRB1863]

Inaccuracies may be attributed to the interpretation of the original sketch. If the original sketch had some faults, then an engraving made from the sketch with more faults...the original inaccuracies may have been multiplied due to the regeneration. The foreground terrain is questionably authentic, too.

 

[Dave G]

Nice pictures E. I agree that the artist might have been using a lot of imagination. Somehow they have already buried some bodies and supplied the gravestones.
I tried to match the Frassanito photo with this one (2010). The Slyder farm is in there just right of center behind the trees.