Views in the Navy Ordnance Yard, Washington, D.C., June

1866

Mathew B. Brady

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Mathew B. Brady

Artist, American, 1822 - 1896

This is a photograph of a large outdoor storage area for naval torpedoes or bombs, with a two-story brick building and a single-story structure visible. The image depicts an orderly arrangement of numerous large cylindrical objects, aligned on the ground in parallel rows. The setting is an exterior yard, presumably part of a military or naval installation. In the foreground, the munitions are stacked neatly, each one resting on wooden cradles. The ground surface is bare and appears dusty, with paths perhaps made for transport. The buildings, one brick and the other a lighter construction, serve as a backdrop with windows and doors visible. Trees on the periphery provide a natural element within the industrial landscape.

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Provenance

(Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA); Paul Sack, San Francisco, January 2011; NGA purchase (through Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco), 2020.

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Inscriptions

lower left below image printed in black ink: Brady & CO.,; lower center: Views in the Navy Ordnance Yard, Washington, D.C. / June 1866.; lower right: 352 Pennsylvania Avenue.; on verso, upper left printed in black ink perpendicular: Brady & CO.,; center left: Views in the Navy Ordnance Yard, Washington D. C. / June 1866.; lower left: 352 Pennsylvania Avenue.; lower right printed in black ink on applied sticker perpendicular: A. WILSON EMBREY, III / Fredericksburg, Va. / 295

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