Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2011.

Confederate Dead at Antietam

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

CultureAmerican | Scottish

DateSeptember 19, 1862

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 3 1/8 × 4 5/8 in. (7.9 × 11.7 cm)
Overall: 4 1/2 × 6 in. (11.4 × 15.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 1/16 × 17 1/16 in. (40.8 × 43.3 cm)

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

Object number98.32.178

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DescriptionThese are albumen prints mounted on Brady album gallery cards. The David L. Hack Civil War Photography Collection. This is a black and white photograph with a dirt road veering off to the left side and a wooden fence leading back from the front down the right side. Near the fence lays the corpses of fallen soldiers. Text along the bottom reads "The day after the Battle." This is from _Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War_ (Hack Collection No. 2].

Label TextAlexander Gardner American (1821-1882) Confederate Dead at Antietam, September 19, 1862 Albumen print, 3 1/2 x 4 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 ReferencesEleanor Jones Harvey, _The Civil War and American Art_ (New Haven, CT: Smithsonian American Art Museum, in association with Yale University Press, 2012), 79.