Portrait of Two Illinois Cavalrymen

1860s

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    tintype with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 8.6 × 6.3 cm (3 3/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
    mat: 10.5 × 8.3 cm (4 1/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
    case: 11.8 × 9.5 × 0.9 cm (4 5/8 × 3 3/4 × 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.40.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Medhurst and Company, Olathe, KS); (Charles Schwartz, Ltd., New York), November 2011; NGA purchase, 2012.

Associated Names

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.

Wikidata ID

Q64144668

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