Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 8 x 16 cm (3 1/8 x 6 5/16 in.) Mount: 8.4 x 17.5 cm (3 5/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2011
Accession Number
2011.476
Tags
About the Artist
Brady & Co.|E. & H. T. Anthony · 1840–1889
Brady & Co., the pioneering American photography studio active from the 1840s to the 1880s, was founded by Mathew B. Brady, who established his first daguerreotype gallery in New York City in 1844 at the corner of Broadway and Fulton Street. Brady had studied portrait painting under artist William Page in Saratoga and Albany before moving to New York, where he trained in the new daguerreotype proc...