Title from caption on object: “T.V. Robot”
August 25, 1961
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Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.4 × 17.2 cm (9 5/8 × 6 3/4 in.)
sheet: 25.4 × 20.6 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.439
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
on verso, upper center printed in purple ink perpendicular: KSE42039; center left printed in purple ink on applied paper perpendicular: 25-8-61 / T.V. ROBOT - ON SHOW AT BERLIN RADIO SHOW... / This "Television Robot" - made by a / German radio factory is the greatest attraction at the / German Radio and Television Display and Phono / Exhibition now being held in the Berlin Fairgrounds.. / Visitors will see themselves on the TV screen in / centre - the pictures being transmitted via a camera / concealed in the head of the robot.. / JSS/KEYSTONE 42/734500.; center right Keystone Press copyright stamp in blue ink perpendicular; center right Keystone Press copyright stamp in red ink perpendicular