West Point Album Class of 1868
1868
Artist, American, 1834 - 1884
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume of 154 albumen prints
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Credit Line
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund and Clinton and Jean Wright Fund
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Dimensions
overall (album closed): 35.2 × 29 × 9 cm (13 7/8 × 11 7/16 × 3 9/16 in.)
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Accession
2014.68.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, OH, 15 November 2013, lot 352, as 1868 West Point Album with Officers KIA at Little Big Horn); (Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA), 2013; NGA purchase, 2014.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2017
East of the Mississippi, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2017 - 2018, no. 62.
Inscriptions
on album cover, center in embossed gilt: cor unum viae diversae / '68 / D. Stewart Denison. / U.S.A.; album spine, top in embossed gilt: UNITED STATES / MILITARY / ACADEMY; center: CLASS OF 1868