Field Where Gen. Reynolds Fell, Gettysburg, plate 37, from Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War, Volume I
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, American, 1840 - 1882
July 1863; print 1865
Albumen print from a wet collodion negative
Image: 6 15/16 × 8 7/8 in. (17.6 × 22.6 cm)
Sheet: 12 5/16 × 15 3/4 in. (31.2 × 40 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William S. Rubin Fund
2008.64.2
Printer
Alexander Gardner
Publisher
Philip & Solomons Publishers, Washington, D.C.
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Dated, in ink, lower left margin: July, 1863.; titled and inscribed, in ink, lower center margin: Incidents of the War. / FIELD WHERE GEN. REYNOLDS FELL, GETTYSBURG. / Published by PHILP & SOLOMONS, Washington; printed, in ink, lower left margin: Negative by T.H. O'SULLIVAN.; printed, in ink, lower center margin: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1865, by A. GARDNER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Disctrict of Columbia.; printed, in ink, lower right margin: Positive by A. GARDNER, 511 7th St., Washiington.
Course History
ANTH 12.3, WGST 42.5, The Ethnography of Violence, Chelsey Kivland, Fall 2013
ENGL 29, American Fiction to 1900, Colleen Boggs, Spring 2014
SART 17.9, The Photographer as Activist: Making Art Inspired by the Hood Museum's Collection , Virginia Beahan, Winter 2015
ARTH 48.08, The Photographic Medium, Allan Doyle, Winter 2019
WRIT 7.24, Past Imperfect, Cynthia Monroe, Spring 2019
SART 29, Photography I, Christina Seely, Spring 2019
WRIT 7.24, Past Imperfect, Cynthia Monroe, Spring 2019
SART 29, Photography I, Christina Seely, Fall 2019
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
HIST 7.32, Civil War Photographs, Robert Bonner, Winter 2022
Art History 48.02, Histories of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2024
Exhibition History
Bringing the War Home: Photographs of the Civil War, Israel Sack Gallery [American Works on Paper wall], Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 13-October 2012.
Provenance
Lee Gallery, Winchester, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 2008.
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