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Frederic Edwin Church: English: Our Heaven Born Banner   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Painting by William Bauly
Lithography by Sarony, Major & Knapp

based on original painting by
Frederic Edwin Church  (1826–1900)  wikidata:Q366212
 
Frederic Edwin Church
Alternative names
Frederick Edwin Church
Description American painter, landscape painter, art collector and traveler
Date of birth/death 4 May 1826 Edit this at Wikidata 7 April 1900 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Hartford Edit this at Wikidata New York City Edit this at Wikidata
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Catskill; New York City; Ecuador; Colombia; Petra; Rome; Colony of Jamaica; Mexico; Olana State Historic Site; Jamaica Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q366212
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English: Our Heaven Born Banner
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English: Title: Our heaven born banner / 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 W[illiam] Schaus, 749 Broadway New York, c1861.
  • Medium: 1 print on wove paper : lithograph printed in colors ; image 25.2 x 32.3 cm.
  • Summary: A pro-Union patriotic print, evidently based on Frederic Edwin Church's small oil painting "Our Banner in the Sky" or on a chromolithograph reproducing that painting published in New York by Goupil & Co. in the summer of 1861. Church's painting was inspired by the highly publicized Confederate insult to the American flag at Fort Sumter in April 1861 and by a sermon by Henry Ward Beecher published shortly thereafter. The present print was deposited for copyright, with a companion piece, "Fate of the Rebel Flag" (no. 1861-21), on September 6. "Our Heaven Born Banner" shows a lone Zouave sentry watching from a promontory as the dawn breaks in the distance. His rifle and bayonet form the staff of an American flag whose design and colors are formed by the sky's light. Below, in the distance, is a fort--probably Sumter. The print is accompanied by eight lines of verse:
When Freedom from her mountain height / Unfurled her standard to the air, / She tore the azure robe of night / And set the stars of glory there. / She mingled with its gorgeous dyes / The milky baldrick of the skies, / And striped its pure celestial white / With streakings of the morning light.
Unlike its companion piece, "Our Heaven Born Banner" is printed using brown instead of black ink for the primary tone.
  • Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-12417 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-91440 (b&w film copy neg.)
  • Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  • Call Number: PGA - Sarony, Major & Knapp--Our heaven... (A 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.
  • Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1861-20.
  • Described in: Burke, Doreen Bolger. "Frederic Edwin Church and the Banner of Dawn." American art journal 14, no. 2 (Spring 1982): 39-46.
A lithograph by Sarony, Major & Knapp based on Frederic Edwin Church's oil painting Our Banner in the Sky. A Zouave sentry watches from a promontory as the dawn breaks, while his rifle and bayonet form the staff of the flag.
Date circa 1861
date QS:P571,+1861-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Library of Congress, Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-12417

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cph.3g12417.
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Original painting by Frederic Edwin Church

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