Dunker Church, Battle-Field of Antietam, Maryland
July 1863
Medium
Albumen print, pl. 21 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 17.7 × 22.9 cm (7 × 9 1/16 in.); Album page: 31.1 × 44.7 cm (12 1/4 × 17 5/8 in.)
Classification
photograph
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
196297
Art Historical Context
**Dunker Church, BattleField of Antietam Maryland** (July 1863) by James Gardner captures a poignant aftermath of one of the Civil War's deadliest clashes. This albumen print, plate 21 from Alexander Gardner's landmark *Photographic Sketch Book of the, Volume 1* (1866), depicts the modest white Dunker Church—home to the German Baptist Brethren—standing amid the scarred fields of Sharpsburg, Maryland. Gardner, a skilled photographer working under his more famous namesake Alexander, documented the site just months after the September 1862 battle, offering visitors a stark, unvarnished glimpse in...