[Sherman, William T.]: [Rosenthal, Max, artist]:

$875 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

MAJ. GEN. WM. T. SHERMAN. A large and attractive lithograph of Major General William Tecumseh Sherman produced shortly after his famous march through Georgia. The General is shown in military uniform surrounded by a patriotic victory border; in the background is a piece of artillery and stack of ammunition pointed at Atlanta. The drawing is signed on the stone by Max Rosenthal, a talented Polish artist who was active with his family's prolific lithography firm in Philadelphia between 1851 and 1872. Rosenthal was no stranger to Civil War scenes, having followed the Army of the Potomac for two years sketching battle scenes and camps. The publisher, William Smith, specialized in portraits such as this as well as in American historical scenes."[Rosenthal's son Albert] says that one of his father's best portraits was a large folio...lithograph of General Sherman, made during the Civil War....The Rosenthals added much of true artistic merit....Some of their early work is of great technical interest, and...others are quite rife with the true American spirit of lithography" - Peters. "The tools of war gathered in the foreground - a musket, saber, telescope, pistol, fieldpiece, cannonball, and trumpet - are presented as relics of the conquest of Atlanta, the skyline of which is visible in the background....Only when he fell into the hands of the photographers who crowded the eastern theater of the war did William T. Sherman sit for the models that would then become the sources for the

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