Confederate Dead in a Ditch on the Right Wing Used as a Rifle Pit, Antietam
Attribution
Alexander Gardner
(American (born Scotland), 1821 - 1882)
CultureAmerican
Date1862
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 in. (40.6 × 43.2 cm)
Overall: 4 1/2 × 6 in. (11.4 × 15.2 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 number98.32.333
Collections
Not on view
DescriptionThe David L. Hack Civil War Photography Collection. Photograph of corpses in a trench. Several men lined up and looking down into the trench. This is from _Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War_ (Hack Collection No. 2].Label TextAlexander Gardner Confederate Dead in a Ditch on the Right Wing Used as a Rifle Pit, Antietam, 1862 Albumen print, 8 x 7 in. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Gift of David L. Hack and by exchange Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 98.32.333Exhibition 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), 78.
1866 or 1869
