At Anchor
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): 16.5 × 21.4 cm (6 1/2 × 8 7/16 in.)
page size: 27 × 33.8 cm (10 5/8 × 13 5/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.212
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Stieglitz Estate Number
65A
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
231
Associated Artworks
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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. 231.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: At Anchor / 1894
Wikidata ID
Q64037649
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For Stieglitz’s description of boats landing in Katwijk, see Key Set number 225.
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2006.3.1.25
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:
1896, Toronto (silver medal)
1896, Syracuse (no. 247, as At Anchor)
1899, New York (nos. 57, 83, as At Anchor, 1894, platinum direct, and 1894–1899, bichromate of gum)
1899, London (no. 8, as At Anchor)
1900, New York (no. 98, as At Anchor)
1900, Philadelphia (no. 162, as At Anchor, gum bichromate)
1902, New York (no. 134, as At Anchor, 1894)
1903, Denver (no. 144, as At Anchor)
1908, Toronto (no. 92, as At Anchor)
1934, New York (no. 21, as At Anchor, gelatin silver)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Alfred Stieglitz and Louis H. Schubart, “Two Artists' Haunts,” The Photographic Times 26 (January 1895): 9 (ill., At Anchor, Katwyk)
The Amateur Photographer 21 (1 February 1895): 66 (ill., At Anchor)
The American Amateur Photographer 7:7 (July 1895): opp. 299 (ill., At Anchor)
F. W. Crane, “Recent Amateur Photography,” Godey’s Magazine 131 (September 1895): 242 (ill., At Anchor [Katwyk, Holland])
“Photographs from the Camera Club Exhibition,” New-York Tribune (14 May 1899): illustrated supplement, 10 (ill., At Anchor)
Theodore Dreiser, “A Master of Photography,” Success Magazine 2 (10 June 1899): 471 (ill., At Anchor)
Alfred Stieglitz, “Pictorial Photography,” Scribner’s Magazine 26:5 (November 1899): 535 (ill., At Anchor)
Camera Notes 4:4 (April 1901): 241 (ill., At Anchor)
Charles H. Caffin, “Photography as a Fine Art. II.—Alfred Stieglitz and His Work,” Everybody’s Magazine 4 (April 1901): 359 (ill., At Anchor, 1894)
Charles H. Caffin, Photography as a Fine Art (New York, 1901): 23 (ill., At Anchor)