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ID: 700008966
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008966
Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1
President Lincoln on Battlefield of Antietam (photographic print; Alexander Gardner (1821 - 1882); negative October 1862; print 1...; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...; 84.XO.1232.1.23)
Titles:
President Lincoln on Battlefield of Antietam (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)
Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War (C,U,GP,undetermined,U,U)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
photographic print [300127104] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, photographs, <photographs by form>, positives (photographs))
albumen silver print [300127121]
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, photographs, <photographs by form>, positives (photographs), photographic prints, <photographic prints by process>)

Classifications:
photographs (preferred)

Creation Date: negative October 1862; print 1866

Creator Display:
Alexander Gardner (1821 - 1882) [preferred]
photographer Gardner, Alexander (American photographer and printer, 1821-1882, born in Scotland) [500115196]
Locations:
Current: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500115988] J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)
Repository Numbers: 84.XO.1232.1.23
Display Materials: albumen silver print
albumen process [300133274]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <photography and photographic processes and techniques>, photographic processes)

Dimensions: 16.8 x 22.7 cm (6 5/8 x 8 15/16 in.)
General Subject:
history and legend (preferred)

Specific Subjects:
Antietam National Battlefield Site [7017423]
.....(Sharpsburg (inhabited place), Washington county (county), Maryland (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)
Battle of Antietam [901001348]
.....((American Civil War, United States history, North and South American history, Named Events)) (ICON)
Abraham Lincoln (American president, 1809-1865) [500344436]
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

Inscriptions: (Verso, mount) inscribed in pencil, at lower left edge, Crane's inventory number: "A4.23 (Gar)"
Marks: (Recto, mount) imprinted in black ink, at lower center: "PRESIDENT LINCOLN ON BATTLE-FIELD OF ANTIETAM."; in black ink, at lower left below image: "ALEX. GARDNER, Photographer, [space] Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1866, by A. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District of Columbia. [space] Positive by A. GARDNER, 511 Seventh Street, Washington.; in black ink, at lower left: "No. 23."; in black ink, at lower right: "October, 1862."
Related Works:
from same negative .... [President Lincoln, United States Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, near Antietam] [700008509]
..........photographic print; Alexander Gardner (1821 - 1882); October 4, 1862; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...; 84.XM.482.1

List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
............... Two volumes, Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Vol. I and II
.................... Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War, Vol. I
Sources and Contributors:
President Lincoln on Battlefield of Antietam........ [VP,JPGM]
........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War........ [VP]
........ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
Subject: ....... [VP]
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