Xie Kitchin
1869
Artist, British, 1832 - 1898
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 10.7 x 13.7 cm (4 3/16 x 5 3/8 in.)
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Accession Number
1995.35.4
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
David and Mary Robinson, Sausalito, CA; gift to NGA, 1995.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1986
19th Century Photographs from the Collection of Mary and David Robinson, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1986.
1995
Seeing Things, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 1995.
The First Century of Photography: New Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.
2002
Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 3 August-10 November 2002; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 22 February-19 May 2003; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 2003-January 2004.
2015
In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015
2019
The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1980
Bewick, Eileen. "Photographer of Innocence." The Photographic Collector 1:1 (Spring 1980): 5-12, illus. p. 6.
1990
The Quillan Collection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Photographs. New York, 1990, p. 130-131, illus. pl. 5.
1995
Seeing Things. Exh. cat. Fraenkel Gallery. San Francisco, 1995, pl. 9.
2002
Nickel, Douglas R. Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, 2002, pl. 3.
Inscriptions
lower left in negative: 368
Wikidata ID
Q64145759