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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1998.50
People
Attributed to Jeremiah Gurney & Son, American (active 1840s-1890s)
Title
Untitled (maquette of dancers for carte-de-visite)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1865
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/195049

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Eleven albumen prints mounted to board
Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 53 x 41 cm (20 7/8 x 16 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 9 [circled]
  • inscription: recto of the mount, underneath the upper left carte-de-visite, graphite: Ada Smith [crossed out]
    Scott
  • inscription: recto of the mount, underneath the second carte-de-visite on the right, graphite: Bennett
  • inscription: recto of the mount, underneath the third carte-de-visite on the left, graphite: Bennett
  • inscription: recto of the mount, underneath the third carte-de-visite on the right, graphite: La Poim [spelling?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA, sold to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1998. One Mt. Vernon Street, Winchester, Massachusetts

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
P1998.50
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
11 albument silver print cartes-de-visite mounted to board coated with watercolor or gouache pigment

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Photographs, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/29/2000 - 07/23/2000

Verification Level

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