Plant Study, 1860s

Not on View

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 10.9 × 15.5 cm (4 5/16 × 6 1/8 in.)
mount: 18.73 x 22.38 cm (7 3/8 x 8 13/16 in.)
mat: 50.8 x 40.64 cm (20 x 16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of the Richard King Mellon Foundation

Accession Number

2018.7.9

Artists / Makers

Robert Burrows (artist) British, 1810 - 1883

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

by unknown hand, inscribed on negative, lower right corner: 23; by unknown hand, lower right corner of mount in black ink: 137; on verso, by unknown hand, lower left corner, inverted in graphite: RB 1002.

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's Fine Art Auctions, New York, 1988); (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), 1988; NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Isaacs Photographs, Charles

Exhibition History

2010: The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848 - 1875, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2010 - 2011, no. 13.

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