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Alexander Gardner

Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War (Volume 1), 1866

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volume Title

Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War (Volume 1)

Medium

bound volume of 50 albumen prints

Dimensions

overall (closed): 44 × 32.6 × 42 cm (17 5/16 × 12 13/16 × 16 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2019.14.1.1-50

Artists / Makers

Alexander Gardner (artist) American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882

Philp & Solomons (publisher) American, active 1860s

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Inscription

on album cover, center gilt embossed: GARDNER'S / PHOTOGRAPHIC P&S SKETCH BOOK / OF THE WAR.; on spine, upper center gilt embossed: GARDNER'S / PHOTOGRAPHIC / SKETCH BOOK / OF THE WAR; center: VOL. I.; on flyleaf, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: C MATFFXX; on title page, center printed in black ink: GARDNER'S / PHOTOGRAPHIC / SKETCH BOOK / OF THE WAR. / VOL. 1. / PHILP & SOLOMONS, Publishers—Washington, D.C.; lower right: A.R. WARD [sic], DEL.; forward, table of contents, and descriptive paragraphs printed in black ink throughout the album

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Lee Gallery

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.

Bibliography

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