Thulstrup, Thure de “Siege of Vicksburg”

Thure de Thulstrup.  “Siege of Vicksburg.”  From Prang’s War Pictures.  Boston: L. Prang, 1886.  15 x 21 7/8.  Chromolithograph.  Margins trimmed to image as originally issued.  Bottom left and right hand corners of image chipped and skillfully filled and in-painted.  Else, good condition.    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 chromolithographs of important battles of the war.  Prang termed his prints “aquarelle facsimile prints” to distinguish them from “mere” chromos.  Prang claimed they were made by a “new and secret process”, but primarily they were