Hoarfrost, a Park Scene, 1862

Not on View

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 23 × 28.1 cm (9 1/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
mount: 36.8 × 47.8 cm (14 1/2 × 18 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of the Richard King Mellon Foundation

Accession Number

2018.7.10

Artists / Makers

Earl of Caithness (artist) British, 1821 - 1881

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

by unknown hand, in upper right corner of mount in graphite: 78/15; by unknown hand, lower right on mount below image in graphite: Hoar frost, a Park Scene / Prize picture / by Earl of Caithness / 1862; by unknown hand, bottom right edge in graphite: K1068 [check mark]

Provenance

Michael Wilson, Los Angeles, CA; (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), 1995; NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Isaacs Photographs, Charles

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.