CAMP BRIGHTWOOD, 2D RHODE ISLAND. COL. FRANK WHEATON COMMDG

Philadelphia: L.N. Rosenthal, 1861. Broadside, hand colored lithograph, oblong 8-5/8" x 4-3/4." Very Good.

Camp Brightwood was organized at the beginning of the Civil War in Washington DC.
The Rosenthal Company consisted of four Polish-born Jewish brothers who immigrated to Philadelphia: "Louis, Morris, Simon, and Max Rosenthal. Max Rosenthal (1833-1918), who was skilled in etching, illustration, and lithography, was the artistic backbone of the group ... Max Rosenthal became a partner with his older brother Louis in a printing business, and they were soon joined by Morris and Simon. Louis was a publisher and printer, and Morris and Simon branched into other parts of the business. Max became well known as a lithographer and, after his retirement in 1884, devoted his attention to teaching, mezzotint engraving, and oil painting. With his son Albert Rosenthal, also an artist, Max Rosenthal produced over five hundred portrait prints of famous American political and military figures. Original drawings for his portrait work are held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania" [Online description of the Rosenthal Collection at University of Delaware online].
OCLC 52847121 [1- MA Hist. Soc.] as of November 2023.