[William H. Macdowell and Margaret Eakins in Saltville (or Clinch Mountain), Virginia]
Thomas Eakins
1880–82
![[William H. Macdowell and Margaret Eakins in Saltville (or Clinch Mountain), Virginia] by Thomas Eakins](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/william-h-macdowell-and-margaret-eakins-in-271896.webp)
Medium
Platinum print
Dimensions
Image: 27.4 x 20 cm (10 13/16 x 7 7/8 in.), irregular
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Charles Bregler, 1941
Accession Number
41.142.2
Tags
BoysMenWomen
About the Artist
Thomas Eakins · 1844–1916
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) was an American painter, photographer, and educator who carried 19th-century American Realism to its highest achievement. Based in Philadelphia throughout his life, he created uncompromising portraits and genre scenes that depicted American life with a scientific precision and psychological depth unprecedented in his time. Born into an educated Philadelphia family, Eakin...