General Grant's Council of War, Massaponax Church, Virginia
May 21, 1864
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
8.7 x 10.8cm (3 7/16 x 4 1/4in.) Mount: 10.8 x 16.6cm (4 1/4 x 6 9/16in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1986
Accession Number
1986.1027
Tags
About the Artist
Timothy H. O'Sullivan · 1840–present
Timothy H. O'Sullivan (c. 1840–1882) was a pioneering American photographer whose unflinching lens captured the raw devastation of the Civil War and the sublime vastness of the untamed West. Born in New York City—or possibly Ireland, with his family migrating soon after—his early life remains sparsely documented. As a teenager, he apprenticed under Mathew Brady at the famed daguerreotype studio on...