A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Alexander Gardner
July 1863
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image: 17.7 × 22.9 cm (6 15/16 × 9 in.) support: 30.6 x 41.8 cm (12 1/16 x 16 7/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2006.133.73
About the Artist
Alexander Gardner
Alexander Gardner was born on 17 October 1821 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and came of age in a culture shaped by radical social thought. Influenced by the cooperative ideals of Robert Owen, Gardner initially apprenticed as a jeweler and harbored dreams of founding a utopian community in America. His encounter with photography changed the course of his life. After seeing Mathew Brady's cele...