A Short History: General Leonidas Polk, from the Histories of Generals

A bearded older man with gray hair wears a gray military coat with gold buttons and a dark collar bearing gold stars, shown in an oval portrait at upper left. Below, a soldier in a gray uniform and red sash holds a flag aloft amid smoke and rubble, in a lithographed scene framed by red-patterned panels with ribbon lettering.

Look closer: Faint smoke and a distant mounted figure drawn in the upper right background.

Artist

W. Duke, Sons & Co.

Date

1888

Medium

Commercial color lithograph

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

828 × 1363 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick