Washington. Armory Square Hospital
1861–65
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
33.65.306
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the somber yet vital world of the American Civil War through *Washington. Armory Square Hospital an albumen silver print from glass negative captured between 1861 and 1865. Attributed to pioneering photographer Mathew B. Brady his studio team, this image hails from one of the Union's largest hospitals in Washington, D.C., where thousands of wounded soldiers received care amid the nation's deadliest conflict. The photograph's medium—albumen silver print—revolutionized 19th-century imaging with its crisp detail and warm tones, derived from egg whites coating paper sensitized to light ...
About the Artist
Mathew B. Brady|Unknown · 1823–1896
Mathew B. Brady (c. 1823–1896) was an American photographer who became the most famous photographer of the Civil War era and one of the founding figures of American photographic history. Born in Warren County, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, he learned the daguerreotype process from Samuel F.B. Morse and William Page and opened his first portrait studio in New York City in 1844. Brady quick...