Niagara Falls

c. 1860

Platt D. Babbitt

Artist, American, c. 1822 - 1879

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    ambrotype

  • Credit Line

    Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 13.3 × 18.4 cm (5 1/4 × 7 1/4 in.)
    mat: 16.5 × 21.5 cm (6 1/2 × 8 7/16 in.)
    case (closed): 18 × 23 × 2 cm (7 1/16 × 9 1/16 × 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2008.79.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Charles Schwartz Ltd., New York); NGA purchase, 2008.

Exhibition History

2009

  • In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes Before the Digital Age, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009 - 2010, unnumbered catalogue.

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.

Wikidata ID

Q64158837


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