Burying the Dead on the Battlefield of Antietam, September 1862
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 7.1 x 10 cm (2 13/16 x 3 15/16 in.) Mount: 7.3 x 10.6 cm (2 7/8 x 4 3/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Florance Waterbury Bequest, 1970
Accession Number
1970.537.1
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Alexander Gardner · 1840–1882
Alexander Gardner was born on 17 October 1821 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and came of age in a culture shaped by radical social thought. Influenced by the cooperative ideals of Robert Owen, Gardner initially apprenticed as a jeweler and harbored dreams of founding a utopian community in America. His encounter with photography changed the course of his life. After seeing Mathew Brady's cele...