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Damaged branches of leafless trees twist against a blank sky in this horizonal black and white photograph. Blasted and fallen trunks lie in scrubby growth along the bottom third of the picture. A structure is visible on a far hill near the horizon, just right of center.
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Damaged branches of leafless trees twist against a blank sky in this horizonal black and white photograph. Blasted and fallen trunks lie in scrubby growth along the bottom third of the picture. A structure is visible on a far hill near the horizon, just right of center.

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

Battleground of Resaca, Georgia, No 3

George N. Barnard

Date
1864
Medium
albumen silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 25.5 × 35.8 cm (10 1/16 × 14 1/8 in.) mount: 40.9 × 50 cm (16 1/8 × 19 11/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2023.30.9
Credit line
Gift of the UBS Art Collection
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CPH
Original NGA record

Portfolio and series

Series
Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • albumen silver print
  • Civil War
  • Nature
  • Environment
  • Georgia
  • landscape
Provenance

(Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA); Paine Webber & Co., New York, 15 September 1995; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.

Inscription

lower center on mount printed in black ink: Photo from nature By. G.N. Barnard. / BATTLE GROUND OF RESACCA [sic], GA, No 3.; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: PW7174; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: N659; bottom right: GNB.136.Y

NGA object ID 226761. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.