Untitled

c. 1868

C.H. Shute & Son

Artist, American, active 1880s

C.H. Shute & Son

Attributed to

Two black and white photographs with arched tops both show a masted ship with full sails. They are mounted on a bright orange background. In each photograph the ship is on the horizon, which comes about halfway up the composition. Four or five long rowboats are gathered on a dark field closer to us. What first looks like ripping water at closer inspection could be fabric and props. The rowers’ clothing is touched with red.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    stereoscopic albumen prints with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the UBS Art Collection

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet (each): 7.7 × 7 cm (3 1/16 × 2 3/4 in.)
    mount: 8.6 × 17.6 cm (3 3/8 × 6 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.30.34

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Paine Webber & Co., New York, 1995–2000; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

upper center of mount stamped in black ink: 5; on verso, center stamped in black ink: Chas. H. Shute & Son, Photographers, Edgartown, Mass. / Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, / by CHAS. H. SHUTE, in the Clerk's Office of the / District of Massachusetts.; by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: 495AH.2; lower right: PW 7137

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