Albumen photograph, 7 x 9 in., mounted, 10.5 x 13 in. From Alexander Gardner's Incidents of the War, published by Philp & Solomon, Washington, 1866. Plate No. 40, titled on the mount A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863, with credit and 1866 copyright to Gardner. Accompanied by the description page including Gardner's famously controversial account of how he found the body. The soldier and his equipment appear identical to the subject in the following plate, Dead Confederate Soldier in the Devil's Den, which was taken forty yards away, suggesting that Gardner and his assistant moved the body and arranged the scene. Condition: Image has lightened a bit, especially along edges and near top right corner. Uneven toning to mount, likely a result of being matted previously. Loss to top right corner of mount.
Albumen photograph, 7 x 9 in., mounted, 10.5 x 13 in. From Alexander Gardner's Incidents of the War, published by Philp & Solomon, Washington, 1866. Plate No. 40, titled on the mount A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863, with credit and 1866 copyright to Gardner. Accompanied by the description page including Gardner's famously controversial account of how he found the body. The soldier and his equipment appear identical to the subject in the following plate, Dead Confederate Soldier in the Devil's Den, which was taken forty yards away, suggesting that Gardner and his assistant moved the body and arranged the scene. Condition: Image has lightened a bit, especially along edges and near top right corner. Uneven toning to mount, likely a result of being matted previously. Loss to top right corner of mount.
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