Cator Family Album

1866–1877

Maria Harriet Elizabeth Cator

Artist, British, 1831 - 1881

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with collages of albumen prints, watercolor, and graphite

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 26.4 × 20.5 cm (10 3/8 × 8 1/16 in.)
    overall: 27.7 × 22.5 × 5.2 cm (10 7/8 × 8 7/8 × 2 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.174.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Charles Schwarz, New York), 1999; (Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc., New York); NGA purchase, 2014.

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Exhibition History

2004

  • Forget Me Not: Photography & Remembrance, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, March 26 - June 6, 2004; National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavik, October 23, 2004 - January 6, 2005; National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, January 28 - May 2, 2005.

2009

  • Playing with Pictures: The Art of the Victorian Photocollage, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, October 10, 2009 - January 3, 2010; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 2 - May 9, 2010; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, June 5 - September 5, 2010.

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.


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