Broadhead’s Creek, Delaware Water Gap, 1863

Not on View

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 26.1 × 34 cm (10 1/4 × 13 3/8 in.)
mount: 46.9 × 66.3 cm (18 7/16 × 26 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John P. Coll, in memory of Margaret Canaga Coll and John Owen Reilly Coll, 2016

Accession Number

2016.29.1

Artists / Makers

John Moran (artist) American, born England, 1831 - 1902

Image Use

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Inscription

on verso, bottom portion of label typeset in black ink, affixed to upper left corner: View of BroadHead's Creek.; two tax stamps with engraving of George Washington and illegible inscriptions by unknown hand in black ink written on them, affixed to center left: FIVE CENTS. / U.S INTER. REVENUE / CERTIFICATE; label typeset in black ink affixed to top right: No.______ / SCENERY IN THE REGION OF THE DELAWARE / WATER GAP, PENNSYLVANIA. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY / MORAN & STOREY, Philadelphia. / [decorative line] / View on BroadHead's Creek.; label placed directly above previous label, typeset in black ink: JOHNSON & D’UTASSY, / Photographers, / (FORMERLY JOHNSON, WILLIAMS &CO.) / 952, 954, 956 Broadway, New York, / CORNER MADISON SQUARE, OPPOSITE FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL, / And Kittatinny House, / DELAWARE WATER GAP, P.A. / ALL BRANCHES OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ART / Executed in the most skillful manner and with despatch. / Photographs colored in Oil or Water Colors in India Ink. / N.B. – A large and choice collection of Stereoscopic Views, taken from nature, on hand. / JOHN H. JOHNSON FRED. GEORGE D’UTASSY

Provenance

John Moran, Philadelphia, 1863; (Johnson & D'Utassy, Delaware Water Gap, PA, 1865); (Shorey Book Store, Seattle); John P. Coll, Berkeley, CA, 1975; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Coll, Mr. John P.

Exhibition History

1978: Collectors Choice III, The Focus Gallery, San Francisco

2017: East of the Mississippi, National Gallery of Art, Washington; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, 2017 - 2018, no. 79.

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