A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863

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series Title

Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Washington: Phillip and Solomons, 1866

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 17.7 × 22.9 cm (6 15/16 × 9 in.)
support: 30.6 x 41.8 cm (12 1/16 x 16 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2006.133.73

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

in letterpress, across bottom under image on support: Alex. Gardner, Photographer, Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1866, by A. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia. 511 7th Street Washington. / A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. / No. 40. July, 1863.; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: AP. 37; bottom center in graphite: AG/1188

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon; purchase and gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary

Exhibition History

2019: The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.