Title from caption on object: “Shadow of a Monster”, 1934, printed later

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 18.4 × 25.9 cm (7 1/4 × 10 3/16 in.)

sheet: 20.3 × 26.2 cm (8 × 10 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.611

Artists / Makers

Robert Kenneth Wilson (artist) British, 1899 - 1969

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

on verso, upper left stamped in black ink perpendicular: DATE USED / JUL 31 1987; by unknown hand, upper left in red ink perpendicular: 5; center printed in black ink on applied paper perpendicular: APN / SUNDAY / ILLUSTRATIONS / 50 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10020 / AP NEWSFEATURES PHOTO / PLEASE CREDIT / (For use Sun., Sept.22, with Marcus Eliason's / Drumnadrochit, Scotland story slugged Loch / Ness Monster.) / SHADOW OF A MONSTER; / This shadowy figure seen in this file photo / from 1961 is said to be a picture of the / Loch Ness monster [circled in red crayon] in Drumnadrochit, Scotland. / Some people around the Scottish lake believe / in the monster while others scoff at it, but / all know it as a tourist attraction.

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary