[Soldiers in Creek, Below Orange and Alexandria Rail Road Bridge Across Bull Run, Virginia]
![[Soldiers in Creek, Below Orange and Alexandria Rail Road Bridge Across Bull Run, Virginia] by Andrew Joseph Russell|Mathew B. Brady](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/soldiers-in-creek-below-orange-and-alexandria-268069.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 12.3 x 20.1 cm (4 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
33.65.271
Tags
Art Historical Context
This poignant albumen silver print, captured between 1861 and 1865 by photographers Andrew Joseph Russell and Mathew B. Brady, offers a rare glimpse into the gritty realities of the American Civil War Titled *Soldiers in Creek, Orange and Alexandria Rail Road Bridge Across Bull Run, Virginia*, it depicts Union soldiers wading through a shallow creek beneath the vital Orange and Alexandria Railroad Bridge. Bull Run was a pivotal site, site of two major battles in 1861 and 1862 that shattered illusions of a quick war, and the bridge symbolized the era's strategic importance of railroads for troo...
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...