Inscription
on verso, by unknown hand, top center in black ink: Christopher Anderson. / Prvt. Co. F. 108 U.S.C.I; center printed in black ink: GAYFORD & SPEIDEL / PHOTOGRAPHERS / ROCK ISLAND, ILLS.; bottom center printed in black ink: All Negatives preserved and duplicates can be had / any time.
Provenance
Private collection, MI; Thomas Harris, New York, c. 1995; NGA purchase, 2018.
Exhibition History
- 2013
- Photography and the American Civil War: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 1- September 2, 2013; The Gibbes Museum of Art, September 27, 2013- January 5, 2014; New Orleans Museum of Art, January 31- May 4, 2014
- 2019
- The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.