Theodore Russel Davis (1840–1894) was a 19th-century American artist, who made numerous eye-witness drawings of significant military and political events during the American Civil War and its aftermath.
Theodore R. Davis
Theodore Davis and James Walker, seated on camp stools
USS Lancaster follows her sister ship Switzerland past the Vicksburg batteries, 25 March 1863
Attack on the Enemy's Centre, Near Marietta, Georgia, 1864
Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City. Published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916, it featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects, and humor, alongside illustrations. It carried extensive coverage of the American Civil War, including many illustrations of events from the war. During its most influential period, it was the forum of the political cartoonist Thomas Nast.
The November 10, 1860 cover of Harper's Weekly, featuring an illustration of President-elect Abraham Lincoln by Winslow Homer and Mathew Brady
The four founders of Harper & Brothers: Fletcher, James, John, and Joseph Wesley Harper in 1860
Harper's Weekly artist Alfred Waud sketching the Gettysburg battlefield, the bloodiest and most decisive battle of the American Civil War
George Harvey, the magazine's editor from 1901 until 1913
