Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 1
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005
Catalogue
- Year
- 1863
- Dimensions
- Image: approx. 7 × 9 in. (17.8 × 22.8 cm), each Sheet: 12 1/4 × 15 5/8 in. (31.1 × 39.7 cm) 12 3/4 × 17 3/8 × 2 in. (32.4 × 44.1 × 5.1 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Alexander Gardner
Artist
Photography
Alexander Gardner was a Scottish-American photographer who immigrated to the United States in 1856, where he began to work full-time in that profession. He is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, and of the conspirators and the execution of the participants in the Lincoln assassination plot.
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Alexander Gardner
- Year
- 1863
- Dimensions
- Image: approx. 7 × 9 in. (17.8 × 22.8 cm), each Sheet: 12 1/4 × 15 5/8 in. (31.1 × 39.7 cm) 12 3/4 × 17 3/8 × 2 in. (32.4 × 44.1 × 5.1 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1863-336327
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified