Title from caption on object: “Appeal Rejected”
May 29, 1962
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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: 23.8 × 17.2 cm (9 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.)
sheet: 25.4 × 20.6 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.436
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
retouching across recto in grey and black paint; crop marks around perimeter in black ink, white paint, and grease pencil; by unknown hand, upper right in red crayon: 75; lower left Associated Press logo in black ink on applied paper; across bottom printed in image: (NY12-May 29) APPEAL REJECTED-- Adolf Eichmann puts a hand to his face / as he listens in Jerusalem courtroom today to Israel’s Supreme Court / decision rejecting his appeal from the death sentence. (AP Wirephoto / via radio from Jerusalem) (see AP wire story) (pr31004pw) 1962; on verso, top left printed in black ink: ADOLF EICHMANN / NO CUT FILED / 311 - 207; upper center stamped in blue ink: ’62 MAY 29 PM 5:08; by unknown hand, upper right in red ink circled: 5”; center in graphite: 2 col / Eichmann / 3 - Edit / 5/30/62 / [illegible]; lower left printed in black ink on applied barcode label perpendicular: BFF-461-BS; lower left stamped in black ink perpendicular: OTHER