Levin Corbin Handy (American, 1855-1903)
1902
General Ulysses Grant at City Point

Gelatin silver print, from glass negative
24.1 x 33 cm (9 1/2 x 13 ins)
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-115886
 
In the British TV Series "The Capture" (Original release, UK, 3 September 8 October 2019, Season 1, Episode 5) DI Rachel Carey (played by Holliday Grainger) visit a house run by a shadowy secret service editing live video feeds in London. In the room a large photograph on this photograph is on the wall (26:50) later Carey realises that it is a photomontage (32:32).

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Curatorial description (Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop")
 
Handy began his photographic career as an apprentice in the studio of his uncle Mathew B. Brady. Upon Brady's death in 1896, Handy inherited his uncle's stock of Civil War negatives, which he mined as a steady source of income, producing new prints from the negatives and licensing images to numerous publications. To satisfy the steady demand for heroic images of the war, he also invented new pictures that casually blurred the line between historical fact and fiction. This photograph, which purports to show General Ulysses S. Grant on horseback at the Union Army headquarters at City Point, Virginia, is a composite of three negatives, all dating to 1864: the head was lopped off an informal portrait of Grant; the rider's body belongs to Union Army General Alexander McDowell McCook; and the background shows an internment camp for Confederate soldiers.
 
LL/54311