Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2011.

Bloody Lane, Confederate Dead, Antietam

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

CultureAmerican | Scottish

DateSeptember 19, 1862

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 3 1/4 × 3 7/8 in. (8.3 × 9.8 cm)
Overall, Support: 9 × 12 in. (22.9 × 30.5 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 1/8 × 17 1/8 in. (41 × 43.5 cm)

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

Object number98.32.137

Collections

Photography

On View

Not on view

DescriptionThis is an unmounted albumen print, stereo half. The David L. Hack Civil War Photography Collection. A sepia toned photograph of a battle trench. There are several men lying dead in the trench. The trench wall is sloping into the left side of the picture and the trench creates an angle from the right corner extending back across the view to the top left corner. This is from _Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War_ (Hack Collection No. 2].

Label TextAlexander Gardner American (1821-1882) Bloody Lane, Confederate Dead, Antietam, September 19, 1862 Albumen print, 3 1/8 x 3 3/4 in. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Gift of David L. Hack and by exchange Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 98.32.137Exhibition 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 ReferencesEleanor Jones Harvey, _The Civil War and American Art_ (New Haven, CT: Smithsonian American Art Museum, in association with Yale University Press, 2012), 77. Michael Korda, _Couds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee_ (New York: HarperCollins, 2014) photo insert.