Object: Barbara Frietchie, 1862

Barbara Frietchie, 1862

Artist:

Dennis Malone CARTER

Description:

Oil painting depicting street scene with uniformed officer on horseback settling a riotous event between men with rifles and uniformed soldiers; woman at dormer window with tattered American flag hanging from her hands, broken flagpole; a church and houses line the street. made famous in "Barbara Frietchie," poem by John Greenleaf Wittier, in which she pleads with Confederate general to \'SHoot if you must this old gray head, but spare your country's flag\'

Credit:

Kirby Collection of Historical Paintings, Lafayette College, Easton, PA; Gift of Allan P. Kirby (class of 1915)

Collection:

Kirby Collection of Historical Paintings

Dimensions:

117.475 W x 92.075 H (in cm.)