Battery Wagon, Front of Petersburg, Virginia
September 1864, published 1866
Artist, American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882
Artist, American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1895
Publisher, American, active 1860s
Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 17.4 × 22.4 cm (6 7/8 × 8 13/16 in.)
page size: 31.1 × 39.7 cm (12 1/4 × 15 5/8 in.) -
Accession
2019.14.1.73
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Portfolio Title
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War
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Volume Title
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War
Associated Artworks
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View on the Appomattox River, near Campbell's Bridge, Petersburg, Virginia
Alexander Gardner, Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Philp & Solomons
1865
Camp Architecture, Brandy Station, Virginia
Alexander Gardner, Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Philp & Solomons
1864
Field Hospital, Second Army Corps, Brandy Station, Virginia
Alexander Gardner, James Gardner, Philp & Solomons
1864
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston; Marc Daniels, Barnesville, PA, c. 1960s; (Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA), November 2016; NGA purchase, 2019.
Bibliography
1866
Gardner, Alexander. Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Vol. 2. Washington, 1866.
Inscriptions
lower left below image printed in black ink: Negative by DAVID KNOX.; lower center below image: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by A. GARDNER, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia.; lower right below image: Positive by A. GARDNER, 511 7th St., Washington.; lower center printed in black ink: Incidents of the War. / BATTERY WAGON.; bottom left printed in black ink: Front of Petersburg, September, 1864.; bottom center printed in black ink: Published by PHILP & SOLOMONS, Washington.