Studying the Art of War
Gift of Mrs. Everett Kovler
Catalogue
- Year
- 1863
- Medium
- Albumen print, pl. 45 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866)
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 17.7 × 22.9 cm (7 × 9 1/16 in.); Album page: 31.1 × 44.7 cm (12 1/4 × 17 5/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Alexander Gardner
Artist
Photography
Alexander Gardner was a Scottish-American photographer who immigrated to the United States in 1856, where he began to work full-time in that profession. He is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, and of the conspirators and the execution of the participants in the Lincoln assassination plot.
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Record
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- Alexander Gardner
- Year
- 1863
- Medium
- Albumen print, pl. 45 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866)
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 17.7 × 22.9 cm (7 × 9 1/16 in.); Album page: 31.1 × 44.7 cm (12 1/4 × 17 5/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1863-336321
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified