Genl. R.E. Lee and Staff. The Military Medallion (Primary Title)

Rockwell and Cowell, American (Artist)

1866
American
Photographs
Works On Paper
Oval albumen print
Image (Oval): 11 7/8 × 10 1/16 in. (30.16 × 25.56 cm)
Mount: 18 × 13 15/16 in. (45.72 × 35.4 cm)
40.15.3
Not on view
On original mount
Letterpress inscriptions on mount, surrounding oval vignetted portraits: "Gen^L R.E. Lee and Staff./ The Military Medallion./ photographed by Rockwell & Cowell, Petersburg, Va/ Entered according to Act of Congress, A.D. 1886 by Rockwell & Cowell, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York."
Inscribed in an unidentified hand in graphite on mount verso: "1867" [underlined].
Gift of Mrs. Kenneth McAlpin and Mr. O. Emerson Smith
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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