[President Abraham Lincoln, Major General John A. McClernand (right), and E. J. Allen (Allan Pinkerton, left), Chief of the Secret Service of the United States, at Secret Service Department, Headquarters Army of the Potomac, near Antietam, Maryland]
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 20 x 18.5 cm (7 7/8 x 7 5/16 in.) Mount: 22.8 x 21.3 cm (9 x 8 3/8 in.) Mount: 34.1 x 27 cm (13 7/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.1220
Tags
About the Artist
Alexander Gardner|Allan Pinkerton|Abraham Lincoln|John Alexander McClernand
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...