Meserve Collection Highlights: Modern Prints from Mathew Brady Portrait Negatives

The Portrait Gallery vast collection of Civil War-era, portrait negatives is represented in this exhibition through nine modern prints from Mathew Brady (c. 1823–1896) original photographic negatives. Portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ulysses Grant, and Emma, Queen of Hawaii are featured, along with an original, glass-plate negative and one of Brady wooden storage boxes.