Colonel John T. Croxton
Mathew B. Brady
c. 1861
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image: 20.7 × 14.2 cm (8 1/8 × 5 9/16 in.) mount: 21.8 × 15.9 cm (8 9/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Funds from Diana and Mallory Walker
Accession Number
2022.178.1
About the Artist
Mathew B. Brady · 1823–1896
Mathew B. Brady (c. 1823–1896) was an American photographer who became the most famous photographer of the Civil War era and one of the founding figures of American photographic history. Born in Warren County, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, he learned the daguerreotype process from Samuel F.B. Morse and William Page and opened his first portrait studio in New York City in 1844. Brady quick...