Nebel_Mexican_War_01_Battle_of_Palo_Alto.jpg - Wikipedia

Summary

Description

Battle of Palo Alto near Brownsville , fought on May 8, 1846 in the Mexican-American War . View from behind the U.S. lines towards the Mexican positions in the south. Hand-colored lithograph; original size of painted area: 42×27.8 cm.

Date

1851

Source

Immediate image source: http://www.dsloan.com/Auctions/A22/item-kendall-nebel.html

Originally published in George Wilkins Kendall & Carl Nebel: The War between the United States and Mexico Illustrated, Embracing Pictorial Drawings of all the Principal Conflicts , New York: D. Appleton; Philadelphia: George Appleton [Paris: Plon Brothers], 1851.

Author

Lithograph by

Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot (1810–1866)
Alternative names	Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot
Description	French painter, lithographer and visual artist
Date of birth/death	1810	1866
Location of birth/death		Paris
Work period	1829 –1866
Work location	France
Authority file	: Q4684426 VIAF : 96280037 ISNI : 0000000355465887 ULAN : 500083284 LCCN : no2011044197 NLA : 35949528 WorldCat

after a drawing by



Alternative names	Carlos Nebel
Description	architect, engineer and drawer
Date of birth/death	18 March 1805	4 June 1855
Location of birth/death	Altona (modern-day Hamburg )	Paris
Work location	Mexico (1829 - 1834)
Authority file	: Q329557 VIAF : 66692415 ISNI : 0000000102383437 ULAN : 500288262 LCCN : n94036479 NAID : 10573583 WorldCat

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