Ruins of the Pinckney Mansion, Charleston, S.C.
Medium
Albumen print, plate 59 from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign" (1866)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 25.6 × 35.8 cm (10 1/8 × 14 1/8 in.); Album page: 41 × 50.5 cm (16 3/16 × 19 15/16 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
145559
Art Historical Context
Captured in 1865 by pioneering photographer George N. Barnard, *Ruins of the Pinney Mansion, Charleston,.C.* is a poignant albumen silver print from landmark album *Photographic Views the Sherman Campaign* (6). This image, plate 59, measures 25.6 × 35.8 cm and the devastation wrought by Union General William T. Sherman's march through the South during the Civil War Barnard, who served as an official photographer for the Union Army systematically documented the destruction of Confederate strongholds, turning rubble into visual testimony. The Pinckney Mansion, once a grand residence in historic...
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 ...