[The Lone Graves at Warren Station, in Front of Petersburg, Virginia]
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
14.8 x 20.8 cm (5 13/16 x 8 3/16 in. )
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
33.65.162
Tags
American Civil WarHorsesLandscapes
About the Artist
Timothy H. O'Sullivan|Mathew B. Brady · 1840–present
Timothy H. O'Sullivan (c. 1840–1882) was a pioneering American photographer whose unflinching lens captured the raw devastation of the Civil War and the sublime vastness of the untamed West. Born in New York City—or possibly Ireland, with his family migrating soon after—his early life remains sparsely documented. As a teenager, he apprenticed under Mathew Brady at the famed daguerreotype studio on...