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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
ANDREW J. RUSSELL (1829-1902) Rebel Caisson Destroyed by Federal Shells. At Fredericksburgh, May 3, 1863. Eight Horses Killed. Albumen print, the image measuring 9 1/8x12 3/8 inches (23.2x31.4 cm.), the mount 13x18 inches (33x45.7 cm.), with a printed title label with the date and notation No. 179 on mount recto. 1863
Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York
Made hours after a battle at Fredericksburgh, Virginia, this dramatic and haunting photograph depicts a ruined Confederate two-wheeled vehicle for artillery ammunition and its team of horses. Russell posed his companions General Herman Haupt on the left and General William Wierman Wright, a civil engineer, on the right, just past the caisson on the road. At the time, this photograph would have been as close to a journalistic battle scene image as was technically possible.
