Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2011.

Stone Wall, Confederate Dead, Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg

Artist Andrew Joseph Russell (American, 1830-1902)

CultureAmerican

DateMay 4, 1863

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 5/8 × 12 5/8 in. (24.4 × 32.1 cm)
Overall: 13 1/4 × 18 in. (33.7 × 45.7 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of David L. Hack and Museum purchase, with funds from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by exchange

Object number98.32.60

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DescriptionThe David L. Hack Civil War Photography Collection. This photograph shows the trench of a Civil War military behind a stone wall. There are dead men lying in the trench, which starts in the front left corner of the picture and extends back to the center, there is also debris scattered on the ground and abandoned rifles in the trench and propped against the stone wall. Over to the right, the backside of the trench leads up to a small hill and trees. In the center background a small house or building is present. This is from _Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War_ (Hack Collection No. 2].

Label TextAndrew Joseph Russell American (1830-1902) Confederate Dead, Marye’s Heights, Fredericksburg, May 4, 1863 Albumen print, 9 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., Gift of David L. Hack and by exchange Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Exhibition History"The Civil War and American Art," Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., November 16, 2012 - April 28, 2013; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, May 21 - September 2, 2013. Published ReferencesConstance Sullivan, eds., _Landscapes of the Civil War: Newly Discovered Photographs from the Medford Historical Society_ (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), 28-29, 141. Eleanor Jones Harvey, _The Civil War and American Art_ (New Haven, CT: Smithsonian American Art Museum, in association with Yale University Press, 2012), 84.