A black and white photograph of a landscape that shows one man sitting on a boat
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

A black and white photograph of a landscape shows one man sitting sideways on a boat. The boat is docked by a large river’s edge. The man is wearing a hat and is looking downwards; his left leg is out of the boat touching the ground. The river looks calm. Medium size rocks are spread on the ground throughout the margins of the river. Three big blocks of Rocky Mountains are found behind the river, two on both sides of the photograph and another one in the middle.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.1014
People
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, American (New York, New York 1840 - 1882 Staten Island, New York)
Title
Black Cañon, Colorado River, From Camp 8, Looking Above
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Explorations in Nevada and Arizona. Wheeler Expedition of 1871, no. 8
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1871
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/157786

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 20.3 x 27.8 cm (8 x 10 15/16 in.)
mount: 40.6 x 51 cm (16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: recto, top center, pre-printed mount: WAR DEPARTMENT [over] CORPS OF ENGINEERS, U.S. ARMY.
  • inscription: recto, top center, graphite: Sci2600.290
  • stamp: recto, top edge above image, pre-printed mount: Explorations in Nevada and Arizona. Expedition of 1871 - Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Com'd'g.
  • stamp: recto, bottom edge below image, pre-printed mount: T.H. O'Sullivan, Phot. No. 8 [over] BLACK CANON, COLORADO RIVER, FROM CAMP 8, LOOKING ABOVE.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Transferred from the Museum of Comparative Zoology Library, Gift of the U.S. War Department, 1877
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2.2002.1014
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Robin Kelsey, Viewing the Archive: Timothy O'Sullivan's Photographs for the Wheeler Survey, 1871-74, The Art Bulletin (December 2003), vol. 85, no. 4: 702-723, p. 705, fig. 3

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/10/2015 - 03/10/2016

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

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