Beschreibung:

Fine albumen photograph, 6.75 x 9 in., on 10 x 13 in. cream-colored mount featuring the printed title, President Lincoln on Battle-Field of Antietam. / No. 23. / October, 1862. With Alexander Gardner's 511 Seventh Street, Washington imprint, dated 1866. Accompanied by page of descriptive text from Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, mounted on separate board. An iconic view of the President visiting General McClellan and staff shortly after the bloody battle at Antietam, the second of two famous group shots photographed by Alexander Gardner on October 3, 1862. This view was taken at General Fitz-John Porter’s nearby headquarters following Lincoln’s review of 5th Corps troops and included (from left): Col. Delos B. Sackett, Capt. Geo. Monteith, Lt. Col. Nelson B. Sweitzer, Gen. Geo. W. Morell, Col. Alexander S. Webb, Gen. McClellan, Scout Adams, Dr. Jonathan Letterman, unidentified officer, President Lincoln, Col. Henry J. Hunt Gen. Fitz-John Porter, unidentified officer, Col. Frederick T. Locke, Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys, and an unknown Capt. Geo. A. Custer. The photograph was published after the war as Plate No. 23 in Gardner’s large format Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Gardner refers to a wartime duplicate of this shot available only as a gallery card as catalog No. 606. Provenance: William Gladstone Collection of Early Photography & African Americana Condition: Few spots on albumen photograph and mount; area of heavier toning in top right corner; mount verso has some light staining; perimeter of mount is affixed to cardboard mat, but it could most likely be separated from the mat.