| Title: | Libby Prison |
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| Notes: | This is a rendering of the interior of Libby Prison, a Confederate Civil War facility in Richmond, Virginia. It was formerly a tobacco warehouse and was converted in 1861 to a prison for Union officers. Unsanitary and crowded conditions led to a high number of deaths in 1863-64. |
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| Date: | 1863 |
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| Artist: | Blythe, David Gilmour, 1815-1865 |
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| Building: | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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| Object/Function: | Painting |
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| City/Town: | Boston
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| State: | MA
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| Country: | United States
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| Scripture: | Psalm 120
Psalm 9:15-20
Isaiah 42:1-9
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| Lectionary links: | CProp09
BHoly01
BProp28
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| General Subject: | Prison
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| Copyright Source: | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Libby_Prison_by_David_Gilmour_Blythe,_1863.jpg |
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| Copyright Permission: | Please visit the URL in the Copyright Source field on this page for details about reusing this image. |
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| Attribution: | Blythe, David Gilmour, 1815-1865. Libby Prison, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=50259 [retrieved September 25, 2023]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Libby_Prison_by_David_Gilmour_Blythe,_1863.jpg. |
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| Record Number: | 50259
Last Updated: 2021-10-13 16:10:05
Record Created: 2007-03-14 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
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Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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