Ruins of the Church of Santo Domingo-Panama

1875, published 1877

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

This is a photograph of a large, ruined structure with arched openings and damaged walls. The photograph depicts the interior of an old, decaying building with brick construction. The walls are weathered and show signs of deterioration with plants growing around the base and up through the masonry. Inside, there are stacks of lumber and wooden beams propped against the walls. The top part of the structure has open holes and an absent roof. The scene is framed by an enormous arched entrance in the foreground and another at the far end.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    albumen silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mitchell and Nancy Steir

  • Dimensions

    image: 13.5 x 23.8 cm (5 5/16 x 9 3/8 in.)
    mount: 25 x 33.2 cm (9 13/16 x 13 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2004.163.10

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Janet Lehr, New York); Private Collection; (Solomon Fine Art, Monarch Beach, California); Mitchell and Nancy Steir, New York; gift to NGA, 2004.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2010

  • Eadweard Muybridge, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Tate, London; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2010 - 2011, no. 104.

Bibliography

2010

  • Eadweard Muybridge. Exh. cat., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Tate, London; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. London, 2010: no. 104.

Inscriptions

on mount, lower left, printed: Muybridge, Photo.; lower right, printed: San Francisco.; lower left in graphite: Ruins of the church of Santo Domingo--Panama; upper right in graphite: P.11

Wikidata ID

Q64147021

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