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Battlefield of New Hope Church, Georgia, No. 2

Battlefield of New Hope Church, Georgia, No. 2

1865–1866
(American, 1819–1902)
America, 19th century
albumen print from wet collodion negative
Image: 25.4 x 35.6 cm (10 x 14 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1988.159
Location: not on view

Description

From the medium’s beginnings in the 1830s through the 1880s, most photographs were intimately scaled objects meant for the hand, the album, and the home. As the medium began being used to document landscapes and monuments in the 1850s, larger scale processes arose such as the glass-plate negative. The mammoth print truly seemed gargantuan in the 1860s. For much of the 20th century, the 8-x-10-inch gelatin silver print was the norm for photojournalism; these prints were destined for reproduction in books and magazines around the same scale.
  • David and Alfred Smart Gallery, Joel Snyder, and Doug Munson. The Documentary Photograph As a Work of Art: American Photographs, 1860-1876. [Chicago]: David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, 1976. p. 41, no. 3
    P. & D. Colnaghi & Co, Howard Ricketts, and Harry Lunn. Photography: The First Eighty Years : [Catalogue of an Exhibition] 27 October to 1 December 1976. London: P. & D. Colnaghi, 1976. exh. cat. no. 239, p. 142
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 92
  • BIG: Photographs from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 12-October 9, 2016).
    Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).
    Photographs: Recent Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 17-May 14, 1989).
    Photography: The First Eighty Years. P & D Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London, UK (October 27-December 1, 1976).
    The Documentary Photograph as a Work of Art: American Photographs, 1860-1876. The David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (October 13-December 12, 1976).
  • {{cite web|title=Battlefield of New Hope Church, Georgia, No. 2|url=false|author=George N. Barnard|year=1865–1866|access-date=24 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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