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Camp Recreation, Grant's Army, Petersburg, Virginia

Artist Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, 1840-1882)

CultureAmerican

DateAugust 1864

MediumAlbumen prints

DimensionsOverall, Image (Top): 2 7/8 × 2 13/16 in. (7.3 × 7.1 cm)
Overall, Image (Left): 3 1/8 × 3 9/16 in. (7.9 × 9 cm)
Overall, Image (Right): 3 1/8 × 3 9/16 in. (7.9 × 9 cm)
Overall, Paper: 13 × 17 13/16 in. (33 × 45.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)

InscribedPrinted on mount in ink: "Camp Recreation, Grant's Army, Petersburg, Virginia, August 1864."

Credit LineMuseum purchase, Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Photography Fund

Object number2006.4.3

Not on view

DescriptionAlbumen prints (3) from wet collodion negatives on original lithographed and titled mount. The first image is of African Americans with a donkey. The second image is a recreation of a fight at a camp. The third image is of two men sitting on chairs in a camp smoking pipes.

Label TextTimothy H. O'Sullivan American (1840-1882) Camp Recreation, Grant's Army, Petersburg, Virginia, August 1864 Albumen prints Museum purchase, Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Photography Fund 2006.4.3Provenance[An armory] Upstate New York; [Mr. Charles Isaacs] Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York; Chrysler Museum of Art, Museuem Purchase, Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Photography Fund, 2006. Exhibition History'Recent Photography Acquistions," Alice R. and Frank B. Sol Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, December 12, 2008. Published ReferencesNational Historical Society, _Embattled Confederacy: The Image of War, 1861-1865_ Vol. III. (Doubleday Publishing, 07/27/1982), 300. ISBN: 978-0385154680