Lieutenant General Scott, General-in-Chief, U.S. Army and Staff
1861
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 26.4 × 37 cm (10 7/16 × 14 5/8 in.); Mount: 34.2 × 42.9 cm (13 1/2 × 16 15/16 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
33533
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
An entrepreneur as much as a photographer, Mathew Brady was celebrated as a great portraitist of national figures from Daniel Webster to Abraham Lincoln. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, he oversaw a group of photographers documenting the camps, officers, and aftermath (battles themselves were impossible to capture with existing camera technology); he published these as a series titled Brady’s Incidents of the War. Here Brady depicted officers surrounding Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, ...