2.2002.2944: Great Falls of the Potomac River, 16 miles Northwest of Washington, D.C.
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2.2002.2944
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Great Falls of the Potomac River, 16 miles Northwest of Washington, D.C.
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1864
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Maryland
- Culture
- American?
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/156393
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
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image: 27.3 x 39.5 cm (10 3/4 x 15 9/16 in.)
mount: 38 x 50.6 cm (14 15/16 x 19 15/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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inscription: recto of mount, b.l. corner, in graphite: Prof Louis Agassiz
with compliments of
[illegible - McMug's?]
[illegible] from U.S.A. -
inscription: recto of mount, b.r. corner, in graphite: Great Falls of Potomac River
16 miles N.W. of Washington
1864
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inscription: recto of mount, b.l. corner, in graphite: Prof Louis Agassiz
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
- Accession Year
- 2011
- Object Number
- 2.2002.2944
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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