Mathew B. Brady

Lieutenant General Scott, General-in-Chief, U.S. Army and Staff

1861

Civil War documentation reaches its artistic peak in Brady's formal military portraiture, combining historical record with compositional sophistication.

Medium: Albumen print

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Mathew B. Brady, Lieutenant General Scott, General-in-Chief, U.S. Army and Staff, 1861