Panorama of the The Union Army of the Cumberland
name: label: commissioned
content: Rosecrans, William S.
label: maker
content: Travis, William DeLaney Trimble
notes: label: Description
content: Late in the American Civil War (1861&#8211;1865), veterans of the Union Army of the Cumberland, believing that General William S. Rosecrans had been unfairly removed from command in 1864, engaged William D. T. Travis to paint a documentary of the general's career. As a staff artist for <I>Harper's Weekly</I> and the <I>New York Illustrated News,</I> Travis had followed the army, seeing and sketching much of what he later painted. This scene, the first of 32 on the huge panorama produced by Travis, represents the young soldier's farewell to home and family. Each scene is 8 feet high and 16 feet long, on a single roll of canvas over 500 feet long. When he finished in May 1865, Travis took the panorama on tour. The artist narrated from a prepared script as the canvas was wound from one of two great spindles to the other. From 1865 to 1871, in lecture halls and churches throughout the Midwest, Travis displayed the panorama to considerable acclaim.
topic: label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: related event
content: Civil War
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Military
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content: Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.67500MA
label: accession number
content: 241045
label: catalog number
content: 67500MA
objectType: label: Object Name
content: panorama
label: Object Name
content: painting, panorama
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: canvas (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 ft x 512 ft; 2.4384 m x 156.0576 m