Scene near Arlington Mills
May 1863
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Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 8 15/16 × 12 1/2 in. (22.7 × 31.8 cm) Sheet: 8 15/16 × 12 1/2 in. (22.7 × 31.8 cm) Mount: 14 3/16 in. × 17 3/8 in. (36 × 44.1 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2019
Accession Number
2019.492
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About the Artist
Andrew Joseph Russell · 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...