[Pontoon Across Bull Run, near Blackburn's Ford, Virginia]
![[Pontoon Across Bull Run, near Blackburn's Ford, Virginia] by Timothy H. O'Sullivan|George N. Barnard|Mathew B. Brady](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/pontoon-across-bull-run-near-blackburns-ford-267918.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
13.1 x 20.2 cm (5 3/16 x 7 15/16 in. )
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
33.65.134
Tags
BridgesRiversAmerican Civil War
About the Artist
Timothy H. O'Sullivan|George N. Barnard|Mathew B. Brady · 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...