Cleveland Museum of Art
Great Dismal Swamp, Virginia
Israel Cook RussellLinkedCulture matchlcp-57e985715c93
- Date
- c. 1872–90
- Medium
- albumen print
- Culture
- America
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 680638
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Israel Cook Russell’s view of the Great Dismal Swamp, which straddles the border between Virginia and North Carolina, evokes both the locale’s abundance of timber and its sense of desolation. Russell, a celebrated geologist, took care to express the geological and biological forces that shaped landscapes but also to create images of artistic value. From the 1700s through the Civil War, the Great Dismal Swamp’s timber was harvested by slave labor, yet the swamp also housed numerous people who had escaped slavery.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Judith K. McMillan
- Provenance
- February 12, 2000: (Gary Edwards Gallery, Washington, DC, sold to Judith K. McMillan, Chardon Township, OH) | 2000–2024: Judith K. McMillan, Chardon Township, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | September 9, 2024–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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