2.2002.1020: Cereus Giganteus, Arizona
PhotographsA black and white photograph of a dessert-like ground depicting several cacti planted in dirt with scattered patches of grass. A large cactus with two branches is found in the middle of picture, on the right side of it a smaller cactus with four branches is portrayed. Far on the left side of the picture a five branches cactus is standing along with others that are not easily seen entirely, just in part.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2.2002.1020
- People
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Timothy H. O'Sullivan, American (New York, New York 1840 - 1882 Staten Island, New York)
- Title
- Cereus Giganteus, Arizona
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Explorations in Nevada and Arizona. Wheeler Expedition of 1871, no. 12
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1871
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/158083
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
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image: 27.2 x 19.9 cm (10 11/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
mount: 51 x 40.6 cm (20 1/16 x 16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- stamp: recto, top center, pre-printed mount: WAR DEPARTMENT [over] CORPS OF ENGINEERS, U.S. ARMY.
- inscription: recto, top center, graphite: Sci2600.290
- inscription: recto, top edge above image, pre-printed mount: Explorations in Nevada and Arizona. Expedition of 1871 - Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Com'd'g.
- inscription: recto, bottom edge below image, pre-printed mount: T.H. O'Sullivan, Phot. No. 12 [over title]
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
- 2.2002.1020
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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