Brady Studio, 785 Broadway (at Tenth Street), New York City

Artist Mathew B. Brady (American, 1823 - 1896)

Dateca. 1865

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 8 × 9 11/16 inches (20.32 × 24.61 cm)
Mount: 11 11/16 × 13 1/2 inches (29.69 × 34.29 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.243

SignedOn mount verso, bottom, in black type: "BRADY.", "NEW YORK."

Inscribednone

Markingsnone

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DescriptionImage of a street scene with a row of shops (including Brady's Portrait Gallery) along the left and men in top hats driving horse drawn carriages.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Developing Greatness: The Origins of American Photography, 1839-1885. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 9 – December 30, 2007, no. 410.

Gallery Label

This image depicts Mathew Brady’s New York photography studio, visible on the left across from Grace Church (located in today’s Greenwich Village neighborhood). It was here, in 1862, that Brady exhibited startling photographs of the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, taken by Alexander Gardner and James Gibson. Their images of corpse-strewn battlefields brought to light the brutality of that one-day conflict, which left 23,000 soldiers dead. Upon viewing the exhibition, The New York Times reported “Mr. Brady has done something to bring home to us the terrible reality and earnestness of war.”

Provenance

Keith de Lellis, Inc., New York, NY;
Purchased from Keith de Lellis by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1999;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

Published References

Mary Panzer, Mathew Brady and the Image of History (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press/National Portrait Gallery, 1997).

Published References

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, 245 (repro), 346.

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