Alexander Gardner
A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

ArtistAmerican, born Scotland, 1821–1882
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
  • from Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume I, Plate 40, published 1866
DateJuly 1863
Place depictedGettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 7 × 9 1/16 in. (17.8 × 23 cm)
Sheet: 7 × 9 1/16 in. (17.8 × 23 cm)
Mount: 11 7/8 × 15 5/8 in. (30.2 × 39.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2023.234.1.40
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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: ALEX. GARDNER, Photographer, 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. 511 7th St., Washington. // A SHARPSHOOTER’S LAST SLEEP, GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA. // No. 40. // July, 1863.

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