Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Artist: Mathew B. Brady (American, born Ireland, 1823?–1896 New York)
Date: ca. 1856
Medium: Salted paper print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 13 1/4 × 10 13/16 in. (33.7 × 27.5 cm)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Kravis Gift, 2005
Accession no.: 2005.100.1228

Lieutenant General Scott, General-in-Chief, U.S. Army and Staff
Mathew B. Brady
1861 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00006398
Untitled (Portrait of a Child)
Mathew B. Brady
1839/60 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00008621
Untitled (Portrait of Man)
Mathew B. Brady
1846 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00009055
Untitled (Portrait of Two Girls)
Mathew B. Brady
1861 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00009056

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.