Pictorial Map of the Seat of War, Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast, 1861

A wood-engraved pictorial map in grayscale shows the Atlantic coast and the Chesapeake Bay, with white water channels winding through dense hatched land and the ocean labeled across the top. The bottom margin carries the caption naming the blockading fleet and coastline from Cape Henry to Fort Pickens, with a Harper's Weekly page header.

Artist

Unidentified

Date

1861

Medium

wood engraving on paper

Source

Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Size

3000 × 2172 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum