The Scourged Back

c. 1863

McPherson & Oliver

Artist, American, active 1860s

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    albumen print (carte-de-visite)

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image/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.)

  • Accession

    2018.95.2


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

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.

Inscriptions

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


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