Edwin Forbes Civil War Etching Music Hath Charms

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Edwin Forbes, "Music Hath Charms." A wonderful historic print, shows a Union camp with tents and huts.  An officer plays a homemade cigar box fiddle/violin for a fellow soldier. Signed in the print by Forbes, E. Forbes. R
elief-etching #267, f
rom An Artist's Story of the Great War. Thirty Years After by Edwin Forbes.  Told and illustrated with nearly 150 relief-etchings after sketches in the field, and 10 half-tone equestrian portraits from original oil paintings. Vol. 2., Ford, Howard, & Hulbert, NY., 1890. 11-3/4 x 15-3/4 inches cardstock.
Edwin Forbes, 1839-1895 began his career as a staff artist for Frank Leslie's Illustrated in 1862 illustrating the battles and scenes of the Civil War.  In 1890 he published a summary of his work in Thirty Years After. An Artist's Story of the Great War.