Amphitheatre at Taormina, 1846

Not on View

Medium

salted paper print

Dimensions

image: 16.8 × 21.5 cm (6 5/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
mount: 18.6 × 22.8 cm (7 5/16 × 9 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of the Richard King Mellon Foundation

Accession Number

2018.7.19

Artists / Makers

George Wilson Bridges (artist) British, 1788 - 1863

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

by artist, inscribed into negative, lower left corner: Taormina / The Amphiteatre; lower right corner: Bridges; on verso, by unknown hand, lower right corner in black ink: LA410; lower left corner in graphite: X2711

Provenance

(Hans P. Kraus, Jr., New York); (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), 1996; NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Isaacs, Charles

Exhibition History

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