[Artillery Camp, City Point, Virginia]
Andrew Joseph Russell|Mathew B. Brady
January 1865
![[Artillery Camp, City Point, Virginia] by Andrew Joseph Russell|Mathew B. Brady](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/artillery-camp-city-point-virginia-268144.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
9.6 x 9.9 cm (3 3/4 x 3 7/8 in. )
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
33.65.339
Tags
American Civil WarWagons
About the Artist
Andrew Joseph Russell|Mathew B. Brady · 1830–1902
Andrew Joseph Russell (1829–1902) was a pioneering American photographer whose work captured the raw drama of the Civil War and the monumental engineering of the transcontinental railroad. Born on March 20, 1829, in Walpole, New Hampshire, to Joseph Russell and Harriet Robinson, he grew up in Nunda, New York, where he developed an early passion for painting, creating portraits, landscapes, and eve...