Sujet

A Fancy Group, in Front of Petersburg, August 1864. Creator: David Knox.

Légende

A Fancy Group, in Front of Petersburg, August 1864. [Scene from the American Civil War: cock fight. Two African American men hold fighting cocks, surrounded by seated white soldiers and civilians. Behind is a tent shaded with tree branches]. Albumen print, pl. 76 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, volume ii" (1866).

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21B04_142

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

54.9Mo (1.9Mo) / 42.0cm x 32.8cm / 4960 x 3869 (300dpi)

Mots clés

leisure animal Caucasian people black male sport man men arts bird birds country gambling white art guy chicken camouflage cockerel cockerels Virginia rooster roosters cock photography Petersburg military war tent tents location century gallery officer officers soldiers soldier concept pastime African American African-American B&W afro-american art gallery United States of America 19th century black & white black and white B W albumen print American Civil War nineteenth century American America USA cockfighting TGN military camp sinister photograph cock fighting united states Alexander Gardner Art Institute of Chicago cock-fight art centre Heritage Art albumen silver print African Americans Alexander Gardner 19th-century Art Institute Chicago David Knox Knox David