[Grand Army Review, Washington, D.C.]
May 1865
![[Grand Army Review, Washington, D.C.] by Alexander Gardner](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/grand-army-review-washington-dc-294721.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 3 3/4 × 4 1/2 in. (9.5 × 11.4 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.1192
Tags
Art Historical Context
In May 1865, just weeks after the Civil War's end, Washington, D.C., hosted the triumphant Grand Review of the Armies—a parade where over 145,000 Union soldiers marched down Pennsylvania Avenue to victory and honor the fallen. Alexander Gardner, a pioneering Scottish-born photographer renowned for his stark Civil War documentation, captured this moment in *Grand Army Review, Washington,.C.*. Having broken from Mathew Brady's studio to lead his own team, Gardner's images brought the war's human scale to the public, from battlefields to these scenes of jubilation. This albumen silver print from...
About the Artist
Alexander Gardner
Alexander Gardner was born on 17 October 1821 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and came of age in a culture shaped by radical social thought. Influenced by the cooperative ideals of Robert Owen, Gardner initially apprenticed as a jeweler and harbored dreams of founding a utopian community in America. His encounter with photography changed the course of his life. After seeing Mathew Brady's cele...