Bombardment of Fort Sumter
Painting By William Aiken Walker of One of the Ironclad Attacks on Fort Sumter Early in 1864 As Seen From the Battery Seawall. Citizens in the Foreground, Gunboat Juno in the Foreground.
Collection
Historic Charleston Collection
Acquisition
Accession
79.1.15
Source or Donor
Purchase
Acquisition Method
Purchased
Made/Created
Artist
William Aiken Walker
Date made
1886 - 1886
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Painting
Nomenclature Class
Art
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
Condition
Overall Condition
Good
Notes
Good Condition with Original Stretchers
General Notes
Note
Notes: Approved for Deaccession, Fall 2000
First offered to Middleton Place Foundation then offered to Gibbes Museum of Art/Carolina Art Association.
Sold to Gibbes Museum of Art for $250,000.00 minus appraised value of four paintings that were then transfered to HCF, Accession 2002.002.
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Categ 3: Drawing of Fort Sumter