Image hunt

[Mark F. Jenkins]

On pp. 166-7 of the Time-Life series volume The Road to Shiloh: Early Battles in the West, there is a black and white image of a painting of the Carondelet and Pittsburgh [sic] silencing Confederate batteries at Watson's Landing below Island No. 10. On stylistic grounds as well as subject matter, I strongly suspect that this either a painting by Henry Walke or derived from one... The photo credit is given as "The American Heritage Picture Collection." So far, I haven't made too much headway on the Web tracking this down... any ideas or hints to try to find out where the original might be or if there's an image of it available somewhere?

 

[Zuzah]

On pp. 166-7 of the Time-Life series volume The Road to Shiloh: Early Battles in the West, there is a black and white image of a painting of the Carondelet and Pittsburgh [sic] silencing Confederate batteries at Watson's Landing below Island No. 10. On stylistic grounds as well as subject matter, I strongly suspect that this either a painting by Henry Walke or derived from one... The photo credit is given as "The American Heritage Picture Collection." So far, I haven't made too much headway on the Web tracking this down... any ideas or hints to try to find out where the original might be or if there's an image of it available somewhere?

Scan it, and backtrace it through google image search, in my opinion.

 

[tmh10]

I know this is not what you are looking for, but interesting and may lead to it.

http://books.google.com/books?id=dJ... Collection.Carondelet and Pittsburgh&f=false

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

Scan it, and backtrace it through google image search, in my opinion.

Hm. How's that work?

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

Here's the image... tweaked a tad for better viewing.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

The elements which lead me to believe that this is a Walke are:

1. Subject matter (gunboats operating below Island No. 10)
2. Style (the way the trees look, the way the Confederate position is shown, the reflections of the gunboats in the river, the way the shell splashes are rendered)
3. Composition (it matches an overhead-view sketch that Walke made, which was typically the first step in his process)

 

[Zuzah]

The elements which lead me to believe that this is a Walke are:

1. Subject matter (gunboats operating below Island No. 10)
2. Style (the way the trees look, the way the Confederate position is shown, the reflections of the gunboats in the river, the way the shell splashes are rendered)
3. Composition (it matches an overhead-view sketch that Walke made, which was typically the first step in his process)

http://www.google.com/searchbyimage...k.com/attachments/watsonslanding_v2-jpg.8928/

That's a reverse google image search. You can google 'Google image' and then upload/paste the image in to that website, and go by there. No images that match yours have been seen, possibly because it was scanned. I'd suggest cross-posting this to stuff like Armchairgeneral.com, or similar websites with other knowledgeable minds.

 

[USS ALASKA]

Sir, here is an easy site to use for research of this nature - http://tineye.com/

It is a Reverse Image Search Engine

Cheers,
USS ALASKA

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

Wow, old thread. In the interim, I found the Walke original, so I'm certain it's a Walke.