Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2011.

Day after the Battle, Antietam, 1862

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

CultureAmerican

Date1866 or 1869

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 3 × 4 1/2 in. (7.6 × 11.4 cm)
Overall: 4 1/2 × 6 in. (11.4 × 15.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 × 17 1/8 in. (40.6 × 43.5 cm)

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

Object number98.32.332

Collections

Photography

Not on view

DescriptionThe David L. Hack Civil War Photography Collection. Image of three corpses lying in the grass near a wooden fence. Text below reads "Day after the Battle." This is from _Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War_ (Hack Collection No. 2].

Label TextAlexander Gardner American (1821-1882) Day after the Battle, Antietam, 1862, 1866-1869 Albumen print, 8 x 7 in. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Gift of David L. Hack and by exchange Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 98.32.332Exhibition 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), 80. Christie's, _Sanford Robinson Gifford: Sunday Morning in the Camp of the Seventh Regiment near Washington, D.C., in May 1861_ (New York: Christie's, 2013) 14.