Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2011.

Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg

Artist Alexander Gardner (American (born Scotland), 1821 - 1882)

Publisher Philp and Solomons, Washington, D.C. (American)

CultureAmerican

DateJuly 1863

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 6 13/16 × 9 in. (17.3 × 22.9 cm)
Overall, Support: 12 1/2 × 16 in. (31.8 × 40.6 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 1/8 × 17 1/16 in. (41 × 43.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase and partial gift of Carol L. Kaufman and Stephen C. Lampl in memory of their parents Helen and Carl Lampl

Object number91.23.41

Not on view

DescriptionThis is an albumen print from GARDNER'S PHOTOGRAPHIC SKETCH BOOK OF THE WAR, Vol. 1.

Label TextAlexander Gardner American (b. Scotland, 1821–1882) Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg, July 1963, Plate 41 from Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, 1866 Albumen print Museum purchase and partial gift of Carol L. Kaufman and Stephen C. Lampl in memory of their parents Helen and Carl Lampl 91.23.41 Exhibition History"An Enduring Interest: The Photographs of Alexander Gardner," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., October 20, 1991 - January 5, 1992. "Something To Remember You By: Death, Grief and Photography," Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach Community College, Daytona Beach, Fla., May 17 - July 4, 1994. "Sacred Sites, Then and Now: The American Civil War," Chrysler Museum of Art, May 1 to August 30, 1998. "Photography Speaks," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, September 4, 2004 - January 2, 2005. "The Civil War: Visual Perspectives, Then and Now," Waitzer Community Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, April 6 - July 24, 2011. "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 ReferencesGARDNER'S PHOTOGRAPHIC SKETCH BOOK OF THE WAR, Vol. 1 (Washington, DC: Philp and Solomons, 1866). Eleanor Jones Harvey, _The Civil War and American Art_ (New Haven, CT: Smithsonian American Art Museum, in association with Yale University Press, 2012), 87.