Table of Contents

• I. First Works in Detroit, 1878-1879
• II. Military History Paintings 1880-1887
• III. The Paris Paintings, 1887-1890
• IV. Works for publisher, George Barrie, 1892-1893
• V. Portraits, 1880-1904
• VI. Drawings and Illustrations, 1880-1909
• VII. Sculpture
• VIII. Later Military Works, 1895-1900
• IX. Genre Works and Final Paintings, 1895-1908
• X. The Book
• XI. Photographs

Siege and Barbette Guns, Rope Mantle and Oak Shutter, Fort Haskell, 1865. 1893

Courtesy of the owner

Vital Statistics

Oil on canvas, mounted on board, 24 1/2 x 30 inches
Signed ll: "Wm. T. Trego"
Private Owner

Commentary

This was one of seven works commissioned by publisher George Barrie as illustrations for his monumental work The Army and Navy of the United States, published in Philadelphia, 1889–95. It was reproduced in section 6 as a 7½-by-6-inch black-and-white photogravure. A study for the figure pulling on the cannon wheel can be seen in a photo taken in Trego’s studio in 1901.

Provenance

Purchased by the previous owner in October 1975, it was sold at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, TX, December 8, 2012, Lot 52110, for $17,000.

Condition

The painting is in excellent condition

< Horse Artillery, 1865. Going into Battery: Skirmish before P...   Commissary Department: Baggage Train, July 21, 1861. 1893 >

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