Battery Number Four, near Yorktown, Virginia

May 1862, published 1866

Alexander Gardner

Artist, American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882

Wood & Gibson

Artist, American, active 1860s

Philp & Solomons

Publisher, American, active 1860s

Alexander Gardner, Wood & Gibson

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    albumen print

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 17.3 × 22.6 cm (6 13/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
    page size: 31.1 × 39.7 cm (12 1/4 × 15 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.14.1.14

  • Portfolio Title

    Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War

  • Volume Title

    Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War

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Alexander Gardner, Philp & Solomons

1866

Studying the Art of War, Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia

Alexander Gardner, Philp & Solomons

1863

Evacuation of Aquia Creek, Virginia

Alexander Gardner, Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Philp & Solomons

1863


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston; Marc Daniels, Barnesville, PA, c. 1960s; (Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA), November 2016; NGA purchase, 2019.

Bibliography

1866

  • Gardner, Alexander. Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Vol. 1. Washington, 1866.

Inscriptions

lower left below image printed in black ink: Negative by WOOD & GIBSON.; lower center below image: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by A. GARDNER, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia.; lower right below image: Positive by A. GARDNER, 511 7th St., Washington.; lower center printed in black ink: Incidents of the War. / BATTERY No. 4, NEAR YORKTOWN, VA.; bottom left printed in black ink: May, 1862.; bottom center printed in black ink: Published by PHILP & SOLOMONS, Washington.


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