Construction of Rock and Brush Dam, L[ow]. W[ater]. 1891

1891

Henry Peter Bosse

Artist, American, born Germany, 1844 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    cyanotype

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 26.51 x 33.34 cm (10 7/16 x 13 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 36.83 x 43.82 cm (14 1/2 x 17 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.131.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon; purchase and gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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. 150.

2019

  • The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

printed, top center above image in black ink: 177.; bottom center under image in black ink: Construction of Rock & Brush Dam. L.W. 1891; on verso, by unknown hand, across bottom in graphite: H. BOSSEE CYANOTYPE "CONSTRUCTION OF ROCK AND BRUSH DAM, L.W." 1891 FROM "VIEWS ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER" EX. COLLIN: MAJOR A. MACKENZIE #177

Wikidata ID

Q64155062

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