Outward Bound
1894, printed 1895/1896
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 20.1 × 15.4 cm (7 15/16 × 6 1/16 in.)
page size: 34.8 × 27 cm (13 11/16 × 10 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.96
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Stieglitz Estate Number
75A
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
113
Associated Artworks
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1894
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Alfred Stieglitz
1894
Alfred Stieglitz
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 113.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: Outward Bound / 1894
Wikidata ID
Q64037628
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Lotta Linthicum, an upcoming actor known as Lottie or Lotte (as inscribed on the print at New Haven), was a passenger on board the S.S. Bourgogne.
For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 112.
Stieglitz Collections
A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 132 [lantern slide] (inscribed: Outward Bound [Miss Linthicum on the Bourgogne])
Other Collections
Worcester Art Museum, 2003.117
Location unknown
Lifetime Exhibitions
A print from the same negative—perhaps a photograph from the Gallery’s collection—appeared in the following exhibition(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
1898, London, R.P.S. (no. 384, as Outward Bound, carbon)
1899, New York (no. 4, as Outward Bound, 1894–1897, carbon direct)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
George Davison, “Focusing,” The American Amateur Photographer 6:12 (December 1894): 541 (ill., Outward Bound)
Alfred Stieglitz, “A Plea for a Photographic Art Exhibition,” The American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1895 (New York, 1894) : opp. 27 (ill., Outward Bound, colored halftone)
The American Amateur Photographer 7:10 (October 1895): 436 (ill., Outward Bound)