Title

Studying the Art of War, June 1863. Creator: Alexander Gardner.

Caption

Studying the Art of War, June 1863. [Group portrait of officers in the Union Army and a foreign military observer: Major Ludlow, Colonel Ulric Dahlgren (standing), Lieutenant-Colonel Dickson ('wearing a straw hat'), Count (Ferdinand von) Zeppelin and Lieutenant Rosencranz. Dickson and Zeppelin seem to be commenting on a copy of Sun Tzu's military text "The Art of War"]. Albumen print, pl. 45 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866).

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM21B03_209

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55,3Mb (2,0Mb) / 16,5in x 13,0in / 4960 x 3895 (300dpi)

Keywords

Germany people male man men German arts country art book guy reading strategy weapon weapons photography war location Armed Forces century gallery sword strategic observer officer officers blade literature swords concept B&W Army warfare art gallery United States of America 19th century black & white black and white B W weaponry Prussian albumen print American Civil War nineteenth century Union Army American America USA Prussia Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin photograph portrait united states Ferdinand Count Ferdinand von Ferdinand von Art Institute of Chicago Zeppelin Graf Zeppelin Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin art centre Ferdinand von Zeppelin Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin Heritage Art albumen silver print Alexander Gardner Gardner Alexander Sun 19th-century Art Institute Chicago military observer Sun Tzu Tzu