Capture of the Gun, Lady Breckinridge, No. 1754 from the series "Kansas City Panorama. Battle Missionary Ridge"
Medium
Albumen print, stereo
Dimensions
Each image: 10 × 7.5 cm (3 15/16 × 3 in.); Card: 10.8 × 17.8 cm (4 5/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Classification
photography
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
198421
Art Historical Context
Henry Hamilton Bennett’s 1889 stereoscopic albumen print, *Capture of the Gun, Lady Breckinridge*, offers a vivid glimpse into how Americans continued to process the Civil War decades after its end. Part of the expansive “Kansas City Panorama” series depicting the 1863 Battle of Missionary Ridge, the image presents a dramatic moment of Union forces seizing Confederate artillery. Bennett, a pioneering Wisconsin photographer renowned for his technical mastery of stereoscopy, created these paired views so that, when seen through a stereoscope, the scene springs to life with striking depth and imm...
About the Artist
Henry Hamilton Bennett · 1843–1908
Henry Hamilton Bennett (1843–1908) was a pioneering American photographer whose breathtaking images of the Wisconsin Dells transformed a rugged river gorge into one of the nation's premier tourist destinations. Born in Farnham, Quebec, Canada, on January 15, 1843, Bennett moved with his family to Brattleboro, Vermont, before settling in Kilbourn City (now Wisconsin Dells), Wisconsin, in 1857 at ag...