Ellsworth Memorial board
Artist
Studio of Mathew Brady
(American, active 1843 - 1885)
Date1861
MediumAlbumen prints
DimensionsOverall: 10 1/2 x 13 5/8 inches (26.67 x 34.62 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2005.37.95
InscribedPrinted below photograph on mount: "The Marshall House, / Alexandria, VA / Published by E. Anthony, 501 Broadway, N.Y." Also, "Entered according to
act of Congress in the year 1861, by M.B. Brady, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York."
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
Keith
F. Davis, The Origins of American
Photography: from Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885. With contributions
by Jane L. Aspinwall. Kansas City, MO: Hall Family Foundation: in association
with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007. Distributed by Yale University
Press. Published in conjunction with Developing
Greatness: the Origins of American Photography, 1839-1885, shown at the
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 176 (repro), 332.
"Highly Important News: Col. Ellsworth Assassinated by a Rebel," New York Times (May 25, 1861): 1; "Colonel Ellsworth, of the Fire Zouaves," Harper's Weekly 5:228 (May 11, 1861): 1.
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