[Union Sailor]
![[Union Sailor] by Christopher Columbus Sherwood](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/union-sailor-830993.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 3 9/16 × 2 3/16 in. (9.1 × 5.5 cm) Sheet: 3 9/16 × 2 3/16 in. (9.1 × 5.5 cm) Mount: 3 15/16 in. × 2 3/8 in. (10 × 6.1 cm) Group frame: either 14 x 11 in. or 17 x 14 in.
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
2019.526
Tags
About the Artist
Christopher Columbus Sherwood · 1828–1901
Christopher Columbus Sherwood (1828–1901) was an American painter whose life and career remain largely enigmatic in art historical records. Born in 1828, he worked during the expansive era of 19th-century American art, a time when landscape painting and portraiture flourished amid national growth and the Hudson River School's influence. However, detailed biographical accounts are absent from major...