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The Ambassador
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Mathew B. BradyAmerican Photographer · 1823–1896
All works by this person →> The correspondents of the rebel newspapers are sheer falsifiers, the correspondents of the Northern Journals are not to be depended upon . . . but Brady never misrepresents. > > Though known first as a portraitist, Mathew Brady became the most famous American photographer of the 1800s because of his studio's many Civil War images. Like other enterprising photographers in the mid-1850s, he opened
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- 1859
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
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- American
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
Illustration of a man and a woman in a room. The woman sits in a chair next to a spinning wheel and holds an open book in her lap. The man sits in a chair next to her, leaning one elbow on his right knee as he looks at the woman. His other hand rests on his left knee. A pile of wool sits on the floor at the woman's feet, and a hat lies on the floor next to the man's chair. A fireplace and wardrobe are visible in the background.
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