End of the Bridge after Burnside's Attack, Fredericksburg, Virginia
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 13.1 × 20.6 cm (5 3/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
33.65.17
Tags
Art Historical Context
Captured in 1863 by Andrew Joseph Russell under the auspices of pioneering photographer Mathew B. Brady *End of the Bridge afterside's Attack, Fredericksburg, Virginia* is a poignant albumen silver print documenting the devastating aftermath of one of the Civil War's bloodiest battles. The image depicts the ruined end of a vital bridge over the Rappahannock River, scarred by Union General Ambrose Burnside's futile December 1862 assault on Confederate positions. Fredericksburg marked a crushing Confederate victory, with over 12,000 Union casualties,oring the war's brutal toll on infrastructure ...
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...