[Members of the New York Sanitary Commission]
ca. 1860
![[Members of the New York Sanitary Commission] by Mathew B. Brady](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/members-of-the-new-york-sanitary-commission-286048.webp)
Medium
Salted paper print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 28.2 × 41.6 cm (11 1/8 × 16 3/8 in.) Mount: 45.7 × 55.8 cm (18 × 21 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.1123
Tags
About the Artist
Mathew B. Brady · 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...