Chesnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, 1855

Not on View

albumen print

mount: 39.05 × 28.89 cm (15 3/8 × 11 3/8 in.)
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sheet: 23.4 × 17.4 cm (9 3/16 × 6 7/8 in.)

2017.66.1

James McClees (artist) American, 1822 - 1887

by unknown hand, lower left below image on mount in graphite: old Chesnut St. Theatre; on verso, top right corner in graphite: WSL - 00165

artist blind stamp in lower right corner on mount: PHOTOGRAPH / --BY-- / McCLEES / 160 CHESNUT ST / PHILAD'A

(William L. Schaeffer / Photographs, Chester, CT); NGA purchase, 2015.

Schaeffer, William L.

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