Quaker Gun, Centreville, Virginia
March 1862
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 8.1 × 9.4 cm (3 3/16 × 3 11/16 in.) Mount: 10.7 × 12.6 cm (4 3/16 × 4 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.1232
Tags
About the Artist
George N. Barnard · 1819–present
George N. Barnard (1819–1902) was a pioneering American photographer whose six-decade career spanned the dawn of the medium, from daguerreotypes to Civil War documentation. Born into a farming family in Coventry, Connecticut, on December 23, 1819, he lost his father at age seven and apprenticed in family businesses before marrying in 1843 and relocating to Oswego, New York. There, he launched one ...