The Dell
1863
Artist, American, 1832 - 1911
George Gardner Rockwood
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 21.2 × 19 cm (8 3/8 × 7 1/2 in.)
mount: 40 × 30.8 cm (15 3/4 × 12 1/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2023.30.123
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Charles Isaacs Photographs Inc., New York); Paine Webber & Co., New York, 4 March 1994; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
lower left on mount printed in black ink: Geo. G. Rockwood. Phot.; lower center: Entered according to Act Congress in the Year 1863 by GEO. G. ROCKWOOD in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.; lower right: 839 Broadway, N.Y.; bottom center: THE DELL, / [Looking up the Pocanteco [sic].] / "A small brook glides through it, (Sleepy Hollow) with just murmur enough to lull one to / repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail, or tapping of a wood-pecker, is almost the only sound / that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquility." Sketch Book.