Sujet

The Wounded Scout. A Friend In The Swamp., 1864. Creator: John Rogers.

Légende

A cast and painted plaster sculptural group depicting an escaped enslaved man helping a wounded Union soldier. This genre scene depicts an injured soldier leaning against the formerly enslaved man, his head resting on the other man's shoulder. The soldier's right arm is wrapped in a tourniquet and hangs limply at his side. The formerly enslaved man stands tall, looking off into the distance, while he holds the scout's left arm and guides him forward with his right arm supporting the soldier's waist. The scout has a mustache and is in uniform, wearing a jacket and boots with a bag, cartridge box and a canteen, while the formerly enslaved man is bearded and barefoot, and is wearing a shirt tucked into pants, both of which are torn and tattered. The men are walking through long grasses and swamp plants. Next to the formerly enslaved man's left foot is a copperhead snake coiled to strike.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21A73_492

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

90,4Mo (1,8Mo) / 39,0cm x 58,0cm / 4611 x 6856 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Caucasian people enslaved person National Museum of African American History and Culture NMAAHC paint on plaster black male man men education arts country statue statues white escape sculpture art guy museum color war location Armed Forces century helping kindness soldiers soldier wound concept PLASTER humanity injured injury African American African-American afro-american slavery kind escaping wounded Army warfare slave United States of America enslaved Colour Smithsonian Institution 19th century United States Army escaped Educational Institution abolitionist American Civil War nineteenth century Union Army US Army heritage American America USA abolition scientific institution object sculpture united states John Rogers Rogers John U.S. Army cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art