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Unfit for Service at the Battle of Gettysburg

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

CultureAmerican | Scottish

DateJuly 1863

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 6 7/8 × 8 7/8 in. (17.5 × 22.5 cm)
Overall, Support: 12 × 18 in. (30.5 × 45.7 cm)

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

Object number98.32.72

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DescriptionThe David L. Hack Civil War Photography Collection. Photograph in a sepia tone of a horse that is dead. The horse is lying stiff in a field with a tumbled over cart and debris scattered about. The horse's mouth is slightly gapped open showing teeth and his eye seems to be bulged out in surprise. One of the wheels on the wooden cart is missing. The cart reads "Light 12" "Pdr Gun", "Canister," "Shot", and "Shell". This is from _Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War_ (Hack Collection No. 2].

Label TextAlexander Gardner, American (b. Scotland), 1821 - 1882 Unfit for Service at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1863 Albumen print, 6 7/8 × 8 7/8 in. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Gift of David L. Hack and Museum purchase, with funds from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by exchange 98.32.72Exhibition History"Dark Fields of the Republic: Alexander Gardner Photographs 1859-1872," Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, September 18, 2015 - March 13, 2016.