The Chapter House, St. Mary's Abbey, 1853

Not on View

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image/

sheet: 16.5 × 21.5 cm (6 1/2 × 8 7/16 in.)
mount: 33.4 × 4.9 cm (13 1/8 × 1 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Charles T. Isaacs

Accession Number

2018.16.4

Artists / Makers

William A. Pumphrey (artist) British, 1817 - 1905

Image Use

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Inscription

by artist, bottom center on applied label in graphite: 37; bottom center on applied label in black ink: The Chapter House, / St. Mary's Abbey; embossed top right: PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST / W. PUMPHREY / YORK; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: 901009✓

Provenance

(sale, Christie's, London, 1990); Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Collection, New York; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Isaacs, Charles

Bibliography

2007: Impressed by Light: British Photographers from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2007: fig. 90.