Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War

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Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War

Artist Alexander Gardner (American (born Scotland), 1821-1882)

Artist Various artists

Publisher Philip & Solomons

Date1866 (photographs taken in 1863)

Dimensionssheet: 12 x 15 3/4 in. (30.5 x 40 cm)

Mediumbooks with 100 mounted albumen-silver prints with lithographed frames and captions

ClassificationBooks

Credit LinePurchased with funds given by John Tiedtke

Object number

2000.52A-B

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 29A

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Works on Paper

Published ReferencesToledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 258, repr. (col.).Exhibition HistoryToledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Prints and Authors from the Time of Manet, September 13, 2012-January 13, 2013.Comparative ReferencesSee also Goldschmidt, Lucien and Naef, Weston J., The Truthful Lens: a Survey of the Photographically Illustrated Book, 1844-1914, New York: Grolier Club, 1980, no. 68.

See also Johnson, Brooks, An Enduring Interest: the Photographs of Alexander Gardner, Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum, c. 1991 (book, video and exhibition).

See also Katz, D. Mark, Witness to an era: the life and photographs of Alexander Gardner: the Civil War, Lincoln and the West, New York: Viking, 1991.

See also Walther, Susan Danly, The landscape photographs of Alexander Gardner and Andrew Joseph Russell, Providence, RI: s.n., 1983, c. 1984.

See also Incidents of the War: Alexander Gardner's Antietam photographs: selections from the collection of Bob Zeller Southeast Museum of Photography, 1995 (book and exhibition).