Land Battery of Naval Guns
1861–65
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
33.65.41
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Land Battery of Naval Guns captured between 1861 and 1865, is an albumen silver print a glass negative attributed to the studio of Mathew B. Brady an unknown photographer in his circle. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Department of Photographs (acquired through the Harris Brisbane Dick Fund 1933), this exemplifies the raw power of Civil War-era military innovation. Brady, a pioneering photographer, dispatched teams to document the conflict, producing some of the first visual records of America's deadliest war. The photograph depicts a formidable land battery mounting massive naval ...
About the Artist
Mathew B. Brady|Unknown · 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...