Thulstrup, Thure de "Sheridan’s Final Charge at Winchester"

Thure de Thulstrup.  "Sheridan’s Final Charge at Winchester." From Prang’s War Pictures.  Boston: American Lithographic Co., ca. 1890.  15 x 21 7/8.  Chromolithograph.  Full margins.  Several repaired short tears in margins.  Very good condition.  Leading one of the many battles of Winchester, Virginia during the American Civil War, Gen. Phillip Sheridan rides his favorite horse, Rienzi, in a cavalry charge.  So memorable was the battle for the war hero that he later changed the horse’s name to Winchester.  A print from a striking series of images of the rare and important Civil War series originally issued by Louis Prang between 1886 and 1888 and later reissued later by the American Lithographic Co.  In the early 1880s, Century Magazine had issued a very popular work entitled Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, and the Kurz & Allison firm had issued a large chromolithograph of Gettysburg.  In response to these, Louis Prang decided to issue a portfolio of 18 elaborate chromolith