The Wissahickon Creek near Philadelphia
c. 1863
Artist, American, born England, 1831 - 1902

Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 26.3 × 33 cm (10 3/8 × 13 in.)
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Accession
1999.6.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mr. John Coll, Berkeley, CA, by 1975; (Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, CA, 1998); purchased with donated funds by NGA, 1998.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1999
Photographs from the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999.
2010
The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848 - 1875, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2010 - 2011, no. 27.
2015
In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015
2017
East of the Mississippi, National Gallery of Art, Washington; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, 2017 - 2018, no. 81.
Inscriptions
all on mount: upper left in black ink: The Wissahickon Creek / near Phila; center on letterpress label: Johnson & D'Utassy, / Photographers, / (formerly Johnson, Williams & Co.) / 952, 954, 956 Broadway, New York, / Corner Madison Square, Opposite Fifth Avenue Hotel, / And Kittatiny House, / Delaware Water Gap, PA. / All branches of the photographic art / executed in the most skillful manner and with despatch. / Photographs colored in oil or water colors or India Ink. / N.B. - A large and choice collection of Stereoscopic Views, taken from nature, on hand. / John H. Johnson. Fred. George D'Utassy.
Wikidata ID
Q64156056