Niagara Falls, c. 1860

Not on View

Medium

ambrotype

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.)

Credit Line

Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund

Accession Number

2008.79.1

Artists / Makers

Platt D. Babbitt (artist) American, c. 1822 - 1879

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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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.