
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Burying the Dead on the Battlefield of Antietam, September 1862
Creator
Alexander GardnerScottish photographer (1821–1882) · 1821–1882
All works by this person →More on Wikipedia- Date
- 1862
- Medium
- Albumen silver print from glass negative
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 259595
The authoritative record is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Get printable QR codesHide QR codes
Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.
Linked open data
Authority identifiers that link this record into the wider web of cultural data — stable references you can follow to the source.
- This object
- WikidataQ97579040
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art and other institutions.
![[President Lincoln, United States Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, near Antietam]](/api/proxy-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.getty.edu%2Fiiif%2Fimage%2Fd5f4b040-0ccd-4b30-9243-f8611918de62%2Ffull%2F808%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg)
[President Lincoln, United States Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, near Antietam]
Getty Museum
#cc1b8661-64fa-4383-9443-cbc15d09f0c0

The Bottom of the Ravine at Inkerman
Minneapolis Institute of Art
#144592

Completely Silenced. Dead Confederate Artillerymen, as They Lay Around Their Battery After the Battle of Antietam.
Getty Museum
#d74c5c22-0ef9-45b7-b6f4-3ee3ec76aab2
![[View of Ditch, Battlefield of Antietam]](/api/proxy-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.getty.edu%2Fiiif%2Fimage%2Fc5406637-e118-4f27-bfb4-ecbb9a23201e%2Ffull%2F808%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg)
[View of Ditch, Battlefield of Antietam]
Getty Museum
#ff3e32dc-d03a-45ef-ae07-9f49d02f8877
Burnside Bridge, Across Antietam Creek, Maryland
Art Institute of Chicago
#196184
To Bury the Dead, from The Works of Mercy
Art Institute of Chicago
#147620

Group at Secret Service Department, Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, Antietam, October 1862
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
#259610
Antietam Bridge, Maryland
Art Institute of Chicago
#196183

Tobias Burying the Dead
Getty Museum
#c9b51e8a-0a92-442f-a901-ba617a5709d2

Mourning for the Dead
Minneapolis Institute of Art
#36123
Brutus Exhorting the Romans after the Death of Lucretia
Art Institute of Chicago
#241734
Tobit Burying the Dead or Funeral of Phocian
Art Institute of Chicago
#109804