Ruined Tower, c. 1858

Not on View

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 21.8 × 17.5 cm (8 9/16 × 6 7/8 in.)
mount: 49 × 34.8 cm (19 5/16 × 13 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of the Richard King Mellon Foundation

Accession Number

2018.8.5

Artists / Makers

Frederick Scott Archer (artist) British, 1813 - 1858

Image Use

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Inscription

by unknown hand, on mount, in lower right in graphite: Q1373; lower left corner: 56; on verso, by unknown hand, on bottom right edge in graphite: From Herschkowitz 11-86; lower right corner in graphite: Archer 86.085

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's Fine Art Auctions, London, 2001); (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), 2001; NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Isaacs, Charles, Mr.