Recovery after a Penetrating Gunshot Wound of the Abdomen...
Artist
William Bell
(American, 1830 - 1910)
Date1865
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage: 7 7/16 × 6 1/16 inches (18.89 × 15.4 cm)
Sheet: 8 9/16 × 7 1/8 inches (21.75 × 18.1 cm)
Mount: 14 × 11 inches (35.56 × 27.94 cm)
Sheet: 8 9/16 × 7 1/8 inches (21.75 × 18.1 cm)
Mount: 14 × 11 inches (35.56 × 27.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.469
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DescriptionImage of a mustachioed man wearing a uniform; his jacket is unbuttoned to reveal a gunshot wound in his lower abdomen. He stands with one arm resting on a stack on books on a nearby table; a mirror behind him reflects the back of his wound.Exhibition HistoryCabinet of
Curiosities: Photography & Specimens. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Kansas City, MO, September 12 , 2012- February 10, 2013, no cat.
American Solider. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January
23 – June 21, 2015, no cat.
George A. Otis, Photographs of Surgical Cases and Specimens, prepared by direction of the Surgeon General (Washington, D.C.: Surgeon General's Office, 1871): 81.
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