Broadhead’s Creek, Delaware Water Gap
1863
Artist, American, born England, 1831 - 1902
Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
Gift of John P. Coll, in memory of Margaret Canaga Coll and John Owen Reilly Coll, 2016
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Dimensions
image: 26.1 × 34 cm (10 1/4 × 13 3/8 in.)
mount: 46.9 × 66.3 cm (18 7/16 × 26 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2016.29.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
John Moran, Philadelphia, 1863; (Johnson & D'Utassy, Delaware Water Gap, PA, 1865); (Shorey Book Store, Seattle); John P. Coll, Berkeley, CA, 1975; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1978
Collectors Choice III, The Focus Gallery, San Francisco
2017
East of the Mississippi, National Gallery of Art, Washington; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, 2017 - 2018, no. 79.
2019
The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.
Inscriptions
on verso, bottom portion of label typeset in black ink, affixed to upper left corner: View of BroadHead's Creek.; two tax stamps with engraving of George Washington and illegible inscriptions by unknown hand in black ink written on them, affixed to center left: FIVE CENTS. / U.S INTER. REVENUE / CERTIFICATE; label typeset in black ink affixed to top right: No.______ / SCENERY IN THE REGION OF THE DELAWARE / WATER GAP, PENNSYLVANIA. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY / MORAN & STOREY, Philadelphia. / [decorative line] / View on BroadHead's Creek.; label placed directly above previous label, typeset in black ink: JOHNSON & D’UTASSY, / Photographers, / (FORMERLY JOHNSON, WILLIAMS &CO.) / 952, 954, 956 Broadway, New York, / CORNER MADISON SQUARE, OPPOSITE FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL, / And Kittatinny House, / DELAWARE WATER GAP, P.A. / ALL BRANCHES OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ART / Executed in the most skillful manner and with despatch. / Photographs colored in Oil or Water Colors in 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
Q64156059