Botanical Photogram, 1860s

Not on View

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 21.3 x 16 cm (8 3/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
mount: 36.6 x 25.3 cm (14 7/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2006.133.128

Artists / Makers

Unknown 19th Century (artist)

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

by unknown hand, upper left on mount in graphite: May 3.; upper right: 17 [encircled]; lower right: DSSL Sold [underlined] / 8633 *****; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: Ap 29 / 18 [encircled]; lower left: ****; lower center: 8634

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon; purchase and gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary

Exhibition History

2019: The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.