Title

Standing Portrait of General Ambrose Burnside

Creator

J. H. Bufford

Files

Creator Role

creator

Description

The CDV features a photograph of a lithograph depicting a standing portrait of General Ambrose Burnside, an Union Army general in the United States Civil War. In the image, Burnside stands looking to his proper right. His proper right arm rests on the back of a horse while his proper left hand rests on the hilt of his sword.

Contributor

Justice Frank J. and Virginia Williams

Approximate Creation Date

1861

Measurement

4 1/4 X 2 3/8 inches

Materials and Techniques Display

paper (fiber product); albumen process

Inscription

recto, below print: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by J. H. / BUFFORD, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court / of the District of Massachusetts verso, inscribed at top: Ambrose Bornside [sic] verso, backmark: J. H. BUFFORD, / PRINT PUBLISHER AND LITHOGRAPHER, / 313 WASHINGTON ST., / BOSTON. / FROM HIS ORIGINAL SUBJECT. verso, inscribed at bottom: [6.00]

Subjects

Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881; Carte de visite photographs

Work Type

albumen prints ; cartes-de-visite (card photographs)

Class

CDVs

Preferred Citation

[Physical ID#]: [Title], Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Mississippi State University Libraries.

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

ID

804

Digital ID

FVW_00804

Current Location

Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States)

Repository

Mississippi State University Libraries.

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version).

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.