The Wissahickon Creek near Philadelphia

c. 1863

John Moran

Artist, American, born England, 1831 - 1902

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    albumen print

  • Credit Line

    Robert B. Menschel Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 26.3 × 33 cm (10 3/8 × 13 in.)

  • 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


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