George N. Barnard
Scene of General McPherson's Death

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Scene of General McPherson's Death
  • from the series Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign
Date1864-1865, published 1866
PlaceUnited States
MediumAlbumen silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 1/8 × 14 3/16 in. (25.7 × 36 cm)
Mount: 16 1/16 × 20 1/16 in. (40.8 × 50.9 cm)
Frame (outer): 18 5/8 × 22 5/8 × 1 1/4 in. (47.2 × 57.4 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Mundy Companies
Object number80.10
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco]; purchased by MFAH, 1980.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "A Love Affair with Pictures: 25 Years of Collecting Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," MFAH, Lower Jones and Masterson Galleries, October 14 - December 30, 2001.

"WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 November, 2012 - 3 February, 2013.

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