Wright Brothers’ First Flight
December 17, 1903
Artist, American, 1873 - 1948
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 7.1 × 16.4 cm (2 13/16 × 6 7/16 in.)
mount: 11.9 × 18.3 cm (4 11/16 × 7 3/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.272
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, RMY Auctions, Wilder, ID); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
retouching across recto in black ink; by unknown hand, lower left of mount in black ink: INTERNATIONAL NEWSREEL.; bottom center in graphite: 3 cols Back at 11 30; bottom right in graphite on applied paper: 11 30; on verso, by unknown hand, center in graphite: Orvill [sic] Wright / 804