Confederate Dead, Antietam (Dunker Church in background)
Artist
Alexander Gardner
(American (born Scotland), 1821 - 1882)
CultureAmerican | Scottish
DateSeptember 19, 1862
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 3 1/4 × 4 3/4 in. (8.3 × 12.1 cm)
Overall, Support: 9 × 12 in. (22.9 × 30.5 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 × 17 in. (40.6 × 43.2 cm)
Overall, Support: 9 × 12 in. (22.9 × 30.5 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 × 17 in. (40.6 × 43.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of David L. Hack and Museum purchase, with funds from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by exchange
Object number98.32.228
Collections
Not on view
DescriptionThis is an albumen print, unmounted stereo half. The David L. Hack Civil War Photography Collection. A black and white photograph of a field with several dead bodies. Behind them lies a dead horse and wooden cart. Even farther back, there stands a solitary white farm home with a wooden fence and a tree lined background. This is from _Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War_ (Hack Collection No. 2].Label TextAlexander Gardner American (1821-1882) Confederate Dead, Antietam (Dunker Church in background), September 19, 1862 Albumen print, 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Gift of David L. Hack and by exchange Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 98.32.228Exhibition 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), 81.
