Street in Fredericksburg
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
33.65.90
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Street in Fredericksburg** (1863) is a poignant albumen silver print from a glass negative, captured by Andrew Joseph Russell in association with the renowned Mathew B. Brady studio. This photograph belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of's Harris Brisbane Dick Fund collection and exemplifies early Civil War documentation. Russell, a Union Army photographer, ventured into battle zones to record the war's grim realities, often under Brady's overarching direction. The image depicts a devastated street in Fredericksburg, Virginia, following the brutal Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862—on...
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...