Keywords: Fate of the Rebel Flag.jpg Title Fate of the rebel flag / painted by Wm Bauly ; lith of Sarony Major Knapp 449 Broadway N Y Creator s Sarony Major Knapp Lith lithographer Related Names Bauly William artist Schaus William publisher Date Created/Published New York Published by William Schaus 749 Broadway New York c1861 Medium 1 print on wove paper lithograph printed in colors ; image 25 1 x 32 1 cm Summary The second of a pair of patriotic prints after paintings by William Bauly issued by New York art publisher William Schaus in September 1861 both were deposited for copyright on the sixth of that month Fate of the Rebel Flag resembles its companion piece Our Heaven Born Banner no 1861-20 in format coloring and its militantly Unionist theme In a spectacular nocturnal scene a large warship sinks and burns on a calm sea littered with debris The flames take on the configuration of the red white and blue flag of the Confederacy the blue field with seven stars being formed by the night sky showing through the flames Lightning strikes the flag from the upper left Reproduction Number LC-USZC4-12419 color film copy transparency LC-USZ62-91511 b w film copy neg Rights Advisory No known restrictions on publication Call Number PGA - Sarony Major Knapp--Fate of the rebel B size P P Repository Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington D C 20540 USA Notes Title from item Entered 1861 by W Schaus The Library's copy is the copyright deposit impression and bears the November 15 stamp of the State Department Published in American political prints 1766-1876 / Bernard F Reilly Boston G K Hall 1991 entry 1861-21 circa 1861 chromolithograph Library of Congress Bookmark http //www loc gov/pictures/item/2003689293/ object history exhibition history credit line Uploaded cropped image from large tif file accession number LOC-image pnp cph 3g12419 PD-old-70-1923 Paintings of the American Civil War Flags of the Confederate States of America in art |