Mathew B. Brady
[Grant viewing Hooker's battle site from above, Lookout Mountain, Battle Above the Clouds]

ArtistAmerican, 1823–1896
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • [Grant viewing Hooker's battle site from above, Lookout Mountain, Battle Above the Clouds]
DateNovember 28, 1863, printed later
Place depictedGeorgia, Alabama, or Tennessee (?), United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 5 × 7 in. (12.7 × 17.8 cm)
Sheet: 5 × 7 in. (12.7 × 17.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Anne Wilkes Tucker
Object number2015.521
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Tartt Gallery, Washington, D.C.]; purchased by Anne Wilkes Tucker, Houston, May 1989; given to MFAH, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Stamped on verso top center: Gen. GRANT, Lookout Mt. 1863 / Left to right Gen. Grant, Gen. Rawlins, / Gen. Webster, Col Lagow, Col. Killyer.

Inscribed in graphite on verso across the lower edge: GRANT VIEWING HOOKER'S BATTLE SITE FROM ABOVE / Brady or Assistant, Nov. 28, 1863, "BATTLE ABOVE THE CLOUDS"

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