
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · The American Wing
A Bit of War History: The Contraband
Thomas Waterman Wood
- Date
- 1865
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 28 1/4 x 20 1/4 in. (71.8 x 51.4 cm) (framed with 84.12b and 84.12c)
- Object type
- Painting
- Culture
- American
- Object number
- 84.12a
- Credit line
- Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1884
- Gallery
- 762
Artist information
American, Montpelier, Vermont 1823–1903 New York
Subjects and terms
- American Civil War
- Firearms
- Men
- Portraits
The Met object ID 13345. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.