Atlantic & Great Western Railway
1862
Artist, American, 1826 - 1904
Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 18.7 × 23.5 cm (7 3/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
mount: 25.5 × 32.8 cm (10 1/16 × 12 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2006.133.117
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon; purchase and gift to NGA, 2006.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2017
East of the Mississippi, National Gallery of Art, Washington; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, 2017 - 2018, no. 131.
Bibliography
1904
Ryder, James, "Photographing a Railroad", American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times-Bulletin Almanac for 1904, (1904): 144-146.
Inscriptions
lower center below image on mount, stamped in gold: J. F. Ryder, Photographist, Cleveland, O. / Atlantic & Great Western Railway.; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: 30; on verso, by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: 30 / 3000-; lower left in graphite: 4864
Wikidata ID
Q64155456