Removing Dead from Battlefield, Marye's Heights, May 2, 1864
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
33.65.275
Tags
Art Historical Context
Captured in the grim aftermath of battle, *Removing Dead from Battlefield,e's Heights, May , 1864* is a poignant albumen silver print from glass negative, credited to photographers Andrew Joseph Russell and Mathew. Brady. This stark image depicts Union soldiers and wagons methodically clearing fallen comrades from the bloodied field during the American Civil War's Overland. Marye's Heights, a site of earlier carnage at Fredericksburg, became a grim tableau again as General Ulysses S. Grant's push against Robert E. Lee's Confederates unfolded in spring 1864. Mathew B. Brady, the pioneering stu...
About the Artist
Andrew Joseph Russell|Mathew B. Brady · 1830–1902
Andrew Joseph Russell (1829–1902) was a pioneering American photographer whose work captured the raw drama of the Civil War and the monumental engineering of the transcontinental railroad. Born on March 20, 1829, in Walpole, New Hampshire, to Joseph Russell and Harriet Robinson, he grew up in Nunda, New York, where he developed an early passion for painting, creating portraits, landscapes, and eve...