Title: Camp Chase, 13th Regt. New Hampshire Vols.
Object Name: Lithograph
Object ID: 2018.008
Creator: Rosenthal, Louis N. (1824-1902)
Place of Origin: Philadelphia, PA
Date: 1862
Description: Lithograph of Camp Chase, 13th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, Arlington Heights, VA, 1862. Black ink on paper. Horizontal rectangle. Hand-colored image of soldiers in camp with several rows of tents. Text printed below image: "CAMP CHASE, 13th REGt. New Hampshire Vols. / A.F. Stevens, Col., George Bowers, Lieut. Col., J.J. Storer, Major. / Entered by an act of Congress in the year 1862 by L. N. Rosenthal, in the Clerk's Off. of the Dist. Ct. of the Eastern Dist. Of Penna., Rosenthal's Lith. 327 Walnut St. Philad." Gray border.
Material: Paper
Dimensions: H-11 W-13 inches
Provenance: The 13th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers was formed in 1862. Rockingham, Hillsborough, and Strafford counties each furnished two companies, and Merrimack, Grafton, Carroll, and Coos counties one company each. Volunteers began mustering in on September 1, 1862, leaving New Hampshire for the South on October 6. The regiment reached Camp Chase, Arlington Heights, VA, south of Washington, DC, on October 9, 1862, remaining there until October 17.
Many lithographs were issued depicting battles and camps during the Civil War. Between 1862 and 1865, Louis N. Rosenthal and his brothers produced at least 32 lithographs depicting Civil War battle scenes and encampments. Many of these exhibit great care in the identification of specific army units, leading to the idea that the work may have been done on commission for sale to the soldiers or their families. This is one of six scenes of Camp Chase created by Louis Rosenthal as different regiments passed through the camp.
Five Rosenthal brothers, Max, Morris, Louis, Simon, and David, were born in Poland. Of these, all but David worked in Philadelphia as lithographers. Max Rosenthal, the youngest brother, was born November 23, 1833. In order to prevent the boys from being conscripted into the Polish army upon their thirteenth birthdays, their father, Wolf Rosenthal, sent his sons abroad. Morris was sent to Berlin to a rabbinical school, Louis and Simon to London to apprentice as lithographic printers, and Max to Paris where he studied lithography with Martin Thurwanger.
Sometime in 1849 or 1850 the brothers, without David, reunited in Philadelphia. Max Rosenthal came to the United States with Christian Schussele, Alphonse Bigot, and Martin Thurwanger. Louis N. Rosenthal entered into a brief partnership with Peter Kramer in 1850 or 1851. The Rosenthal family firm seems to have begun in 1852 when they are listed in directories as doing business at the corner of Third and Dock Streets. Louis acted as the publisher and printer and Max was the principal artist of the company. The Rosenthals, like other major lithographers in Philadelphia, experimented with chromolithography and won a prize for their work in this field at the 1851 exhibition at the Franklin Institute. Louis N. Rosenthal moved to Chicago around 1875. Max Rosenthal continued working in Philadelphia until his death on August 8, 1918.
Credit Line: Gift of the American Independence Museum
Subjects:
Civil War