General W.S. Hancock and Staff
Catalogue
- Year
- 1864
- Medium
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- image/sheet: 10.5 × 14.4 cm (4 1/8 × 5 11/16 in.) mount: 27.9 × 35.5 cm (11 × 14 in.)
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Artist
- Mathew B. Brady
Artist
Printmaking
Mathew B. Brady was an American photographer whose documentation of the American Civil War and frontier landscape established photography as a primary historical record. Operating from his studio in Lake George, New York, Brady created thousands of photographic plates using the collodion wet plate process, capturing portraits of political figures and scenes of battlefield aftermath with unprecedented scale and clarity. His work, exhibited at MoMA, fundamentally shaped the role of the camera as witness to national events and established the authority of the photographic image in American visual culture.
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Fairfax Court House, Virginia, with Union Soldiers in Front and on the Roof
1863 · Albumen print
Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Man)
1862 · Daguerreotype
Lieutenant General Scott, General-in-Chief, U.S. Army and Staff
1861 · Albumen print
Untitled (Portrait of Two Girls)
1861 · Daguerreotype
Record
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- Mathew B. Brady
- Year
- 1864
- Medium
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- image/sheet: 10.5 × 14.4 cm (4 1/8 × 5 11/16 in.) mount: 27.9 × 35.5 cm (11 × 14 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1864-296229
Source
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Source
- nga
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified