William T. Sherman and son
Artist
John Carbutt
(American, born England, 1832 - 1905)
Date1865
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 7 5/8 × 5 1/2 inches (19.37 × 13.97 cm)
Mount: 11 11/16 × 9 5/8 inches (29.69 × 24.45 cm)
Mount: 11 11/16 × 9 5/8 inches (29.69 × 24.45 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.188
SignedLithographed credit on mount recto, bottom: "J. Carbutt, 131 Lake St., CHICAGO."
InscribedOn mount recto, top, in pencil: "Gen. Wm. T. Sherman";
On mount recto, bottom, in pencil: "from Life.";
On mount verso, lower right corner, in brown pen: "To Hon. Ginery Twichell / with regards of / E.W.W."
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DescriptionImage of a bearded man wearing a uniform. A young boy stands next to him with his left arm resting on the man's shoulder.Gallery LabelThis photograph depicts General Sherman with his younger son, Tom, at age nine. This was taken two years after the death of the general’s beloved oldest son, his namesake William Tecumseh Sherman II. Sherman’s expression reveals the weight of this personal loss and the fatigue and horror of war. His embrace of his son is at once tender and tentative.
James Horan, Mathew Brady: Historian with a Camera (New York: Bonanza Books, 1955): 63.
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