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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1982.321
People
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, American (New York, New York 1840 - 1882 Staten Island, New York)
Title
Chesterfield Bridge, North Anna, Virginia
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: from Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War (1866)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1864
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Virginia
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/284437

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 17.4 × 23 cm (6 7/8 × 9 1/16 in.)
sheet: 30.5 × 39.5 cm (12 × 15 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto, below image, black ink, pre-printed: Negative by T.H. O'Sullivan. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year of 1866, 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. / Chesterfield Bridge, North Anna, Virginia / No. 66. May, 1864.
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 6L

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., New York, New York], sold; to [Seiden & de Cuevas Inc., 1977], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1982
Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., New York, New York, purchased from Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, N, 1977, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1982. on Long Term Loan to the Fogg Art Museum from 1977 to 1982

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden
Object Number
P1982.321
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

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