The Scourged Back, c. 1863

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Medium

albumen print (carte-de-visite)

Dimensions

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sheet: 8.6 × 5.6 cm (3 3/8 × 2 3/16 in.)
mount: 10 × 6.4 cm (3 15/16 × 2 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Accession Number

2018.95.2

Artists / Makers

McPherson & Oliver (artist) American, active 1860s

Image Use

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Inscription

on verso, center printed in black ink: "THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION" / ILLUSTRATED. / Copy of a photograph taken from life / at Baton Rouge, La. Ap. 2. '63; the lacerated / body-- months after the brutal flogging had / been inflicted-- having healed in the man- / ner represented. The alleged offence was a / trifling one. How noble and benignant the / countenance of the victim!; bottom center printed in black ink: C. SEAVEE, aJn., PHOTOGRAPHEE, / 27, Tremont Row, Boston

Provenance

Private collection, MI; (Thomas Harris, New York); NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Harris, Thomas

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.