Battleground of Resaca, Georgia, No 3
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 25.5 × 35.8 cm (10 1/16 × 14 1/8 in.) mount: 40.9 × 50 cm (16 1/8 × 19 11/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the UBS Art Collection
Accession Number
2023.30.9
About the Artist
George N. Barnard · 1819–present
George N. Barnard (1819–1902) was a pioneering American photographer whose six-decade career spanned the dawn of the medium, from daguerreotypes to Civil War documentation. Born into a farming family in Coventry, Connecticut, on December 23, 1819, he lost his father at age seven and apprenticed in family businesses before marrying in 1843 and relocating to Oswego, New York. There, he launched one ...