About the Artwork
Soldier and Companion
between 1861 and 1865
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American
Unknown
Tintype with brass mat and leather case
Plate: 3 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (8.9 × 6.4 cm) Overall (mat): 4 1/2 × 3 1/4 inches (11.4 × 8.3 cm) Overall (case, closed): 4 3/4 × 3 3/4 × 3/4 inches (12.1 × 9.5 × 1.9 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, DeRoy Photographic Acquisition Endowment Fund and Coville Photographic Fund
2001.133
Public Domain
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Provenance
by 2001, Jackie Napoleon Wilson (Detroit, Michigan, USA).2001-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Sharp, Ellen. Photographs from the Detroit Collections: An Exhibition Inaugurating the Albert and Peggy de Salle Gallery of Photography, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1983, p. 37.
Wilson, Jackie Napoleon. "Facing History: Images of African-Americans Illuminate a Proud Past." Smithsonian Magazine, (November 1999): p. 139 (ill.).
______. Hidden Witness: African-American Images from the Dawn of Photography to the Civil War. New York, 1999, p. 127 (ill.).
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American, Soldier and Companion, between 1861 and 1865, tintype with brass mat and leather case. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, DeRoy Photographic Acquisition Endowment Fund and Coville Photographic Fund, 2001.133.
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