Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War (Volume 2)
1866
Artist, American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882
Publisher, American, active 1860s
Artwork overview
-
Medium
bound volume of 50 albumen prints
-
Credit Line
-
Dimensions
overall (closed): 44.2 × 32.6 × 4 cm (17 3/8 × 12 13/16 × 1 9/16 in.)
-
Accession
2019.14.1.51-100
Associated Artworks
See all 50 artworks
Battery Wagon, Front of Petersburg, Virginia
Alexander Gardner, David Knox, Philp & Solomons
1864
View on the Appomattox River, near Campbell's Bridge, Petersburg, Virginia
Alexander Gardner, Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Philp & Solomons
1865
Camp Architecture, Brandy Station, Virginia
Alexander Gardner, Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Philp & Solomons
1864
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston; Marc Daniels, Barnesville, PA, c. 1960s; (Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA), November 2016; NGA purchase, 2019.
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.
Bibliography
1866
Gardner, Alexander. Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Vol. 2. Washington, 1866.
Inscriptions
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. II.; on title page, center printed in black ink: GARDNER'S / PHOTOGRAPHIC / SKETCH BOOK / OF THE WAR. / VOL. II. / 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