Iceberg Canyon, Colorado River, Looking Above
1871
Artist, American, born Ireland, 1840 - 1882
Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 20.3 x 27.6 cm (8 x 10 7/8 in.)
mount: 41 x 50.6 cm (16 1/8 x 19 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2005.10.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Charles Isaacs Photographs, Malvern, Pennsylvania); NGA purchase, 2005.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2017
Posing for the Camera: Gifts from Robert B. Menschel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2017 - 2018, unnumbered catalogue.
Inscriptions
on mount, printed upper left: Explorations in Nevada and Arizona; upper right: Expedition of 1871.-Lieut. Geo.M.Wheeler. Com'd'g.; lower left: T.H. O'Sullivan.Phot.; lower right: No. 15; across bottom center: ICEBERG CAN?ON, COLORADO RIVER, LOOKING ABOVE. On verso, upper right in graphite: W1177
Wikidata ID
Q64171441