Alfred Randolf Waud

Biography:

Englishman Alfred R. Waud (1828-1891) was one of the most important illustrators of nineteenth-century America. Hundreds of his evocative and adccurate on-the-spot sketches of American scnes were envgraved and published in notable American newspapers, journals, and books, almost from the time of his arrival in this country in 1850 up until his death, while on assignment, in 1891.

Twice, while on assignment, following the Civil War, Waud visited and sketched scenes of Arkansas. on his first trip, in 1866, Harper's Weekly sent him to illustrate and make written reports on Reconstruction in the deated states of the Confederacy. In April and May of that year he visited Arkansas, one of his first stops, and made an unknown number of drawings of the people, towns, and landscapes following the devestations of the war.

Waud would later attain lasting national acclaim as the premier illustrator for the Century Company's four volume was series Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, published from 1883-87. The American fascination with the Civil War throughout the later part of the century furnished Waud continuing opportunities to supply the illustrations for several books about the conflict. Alfred R. Waud died while on assignment sketching Civil War battlefields in Marietta, Georgia on April 19, 1891.