Our Women and the War, Harper's Weekly, 1862

A wood engraving with vignettes of Civil War nursing: at left, a woman in a white cap and dark dress stands beside a bed where a bearded soldier rests; at right, a woman writes at a table beside another wounded man. Scenes of women sewing and working fill the upper oval medallions.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1862

Medium

wood engraving on paper

Source

Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Size

3000 × 2146 px

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