Museum Exhibition

The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art

Exhibition artworks

Representative work

Gayford & Speidel

“Christopher Anderson, Priv. Co. F. 108 U.S.C.T.”

1865

albumen silver print (carte-de-visite)

image/sheet: 8.8 × 5.8 cm (3 7/16 × 2 5/16 in.) mount: 10.2 × 6.3 cm (4 × 2 1/2 in.)

Featured works

McPherson & Oliver

c. 1863

albumen silver print (carte-de-visite)

image/sheet: 8.9 × 5.5 cm (3 1/2 × 2 3/16 in.) mount: 10.1 × 6.1 cm (4 × 2 3/8 in.)

Cameron, Julia Margaret

1867

albumen silver print

image: 35.08 x 29.21 cm (13 13/16 x 11 1/2 in.) mount: 57.15 x 46.36 cm (22 1/2 x 18 1/4 in.) mat: 71.12 x 55.88 cm (28 x 22 in.)

Talbot, William Henry Fox

1845

salted paper print

image: 16.2 x 20.4 cm (6 3/8 x 8 1/16 in.) sheet: 18.7 x 22.7 cm (7 3/8 x 8 15/16 in.)

Gardner, Alexander

July 1863

albumen silver print

image: 17.7 × 22.9 cm (6 15/16 × 9 in.) support: 30.6 x 41.8 cm (12 1/16 x 16 7/16 in.)

Llewelyn, John Dillwyn

August 25, 1854

albumen silver print

image: 28.7 × 23.8 cm (11 5/16 × 9 3/8 in.) mount: 45.3 × 37.6 cm (17 13/16 × 14 13/16 in.)

191 documented works in this exhibition