President Abraham Lincoln and Major General George B. McClellan in the General's Tent at Antietam, Maryland
Mathew B. Brady, American, 1823 - 1896
Alexander Gardner, American, 1821 - 1882
negative October 3, 1862; print about 1900
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 28 1/2 × 24 in. (72.4 × 61 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ilse Bischoff
PH.949.116
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on reverse of mount, in graphite: Brady, Mathew / Lincoln + McClellan in Camp; numbered, on reverse: 4216
Course History
SART 29, Photography I, Christina Seely, Winter 2015
HIST 7.32, Civil War Photography, Robert Bonner, Spring 2019
HIST 7.32, Civil War Photographs, Robert Bonner, Winter 2022
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.
Lower Jewet Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-March 21, 1976.
Portrait at Dartmouth, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 10-April 16, 1978.
Publication History
Arthur R. Blumenthal, Portraits at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1978, p. 67, no. 61.
Provenance
Ilse Bischoff, Hartland, Vermont; given to present collection, 1949
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