Ambrose Everett Burnside

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Object Details

Attribution

Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894

Sitter

Ambrose Everett Burnside, 23 May 1824 - 13 Sep 1881

Collection Description

The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the Mathew Brady photography studio in New York City. The collection, which the National Portrait Gallery acquired in 1981, includes portraits of generals, politicians, diplomats, painters, and performers. It also contains depictions of “Human Curiosities” at P. T. Barnum’s American Museum in New York City, that, although highly exploitative, help to document the historical representations of disability in the United States.

La Colección Frederick Hill Meserve contiene más de 5,000 negativos de retratos de la época de la Guerra Civil provenientes del estudio fotográfico de Mathew Brady en la ciudad de Nueva York. Adquirida por la National Portrait Gallery en 1981, la colección incluye retratos de militares, políticos, diplomáticos y artistas. También contiene imágenes de “curiosidades humanas” exhibidas en el American Museum de P.T. Barnum en Nueva York. Estas últimas, a pesar de su índole degradante, nos ayudan a documentar la representación histórica de las personas discapacitadas en EE.UU.

Credit Line

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection

Date

c. 1860-70

Object number

NPG.81.M45

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

Type

Photographic Negative

Medium

Glass plate collodion negative

Dimensions

Plate: 9 × 5.9 × 0.4 cm (3 9/16 × 2 5/16 × 3/16")

Place

United States\New York\Kings\New York

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National Portrait Gallery Collection

Location

Currently not on view

Data Source

National Portrait Gallery

Topic

Home Furnishings\Furniture

Home Furnishings\Furniture\Seating\Chair

Costume\Headgear\Hat

Home Furnishings\Drape

Costume\Dress Accessory\Neckwear\Tie

Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Mustache

Interior\Studio

Architecture\Column

Architecture\Pedestal

Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Muttonchops

Ambrose Everett Burnside: Male

Ambrose Everett Burnside: Business and Finance\Businessperson\Business executive\Railroad executive

Ambrose Everett Burnside: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Civil War\Union Army

Ambrose Everett Burnside: Politics and Government\Government official\US Senator\Rhode Island

Ambrose Everett Burnside: Politics and Government\Government official\Governor\Rhode Island

Portrait

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4ba8cc298-f453-44b0-b327-28abeeaa2e5f

Record ID

npg_NPG.81.M45