Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Dead sharpshooter on the right of Confederate line – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Dead sharpshooter on the right of Confederate line in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Dead sharpshooter on the right of Confederate line
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A dead Confederate sharpshooter lying on the right of the Confederate line at Gettysburg is the subject here, preserved as a pair of wet collodion glass negatives from 1863. Alexander Gardner, who had worked with Mathew Brady, was among the photographers who went over the battlefield in the weeks after the fighting in early July 1863, recording the dead as well as the ground where they fell. The picture was made as a stereograph, two slightly offset views meant to be seen together through a viewer for a three-dimensional effect. Historians have long debated how far such scenes were arranged for the camera, so the rocks and the body's position are worth studying closely.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name from negative sleeve: Alex. Gardner. Caption from negative sleeve: Dead sharpshooter on the right of the Confederate line. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,990 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52684 |
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