Wood & Gibson
Battery Number 4, near Yorktown, Virginia

Battery Number 4, near Yorktown, Virginia

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Battery Number 4, near Yorktown, Virginia
ArtistAmerican, active 1860s
PrinterAmerican, born Scotland, 1821–1882
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Battery Number 4, near Yorktown, Virginia
  • from Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume I, Plate 14, published 1866
DateMay 1862
Place depictedYorktown, Virginia, United States
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 6 3/4 × 8 7/8 in. (17.2 × 22.6 cm)
 Sheet: 8 7/8 in. (22.6 cm)
 Mount: 15 5/8 in. (39.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2023.234.1.14
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceJane (1914-1996) and Sawyer Rank (1914-1958), Minnesota; [Arader Galleries, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2023.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in black, recto, under image: Negative by WOOD & GIBSON. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by A. Gardner, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia. Positive by A. GARDNER, 511 7th St., Washington. // BATTERY NO. 4, NEAR YORKTOWN, VIRGINIA. // No. 14. // May, 1862.

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