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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1997.54.9
People
John Adams Whipple, American (Grafton, Mass., USA 1822 - 1891 Boston, Mass., USA)
James Wallace Black, American (1825 - 1896)
Title
View in Willey Mountains
Other Titles
Alternate Title: View of the White Mountains
Series/Book Title: Views of New Hampshire
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1854
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/213713

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Salted paper print
Dimensions
image: 24.3 x 29.7 cm (9 9/16 x 11 11/16 in.)
mount, original: 30 x 39 cm (11 13/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto of the mount, lower right, graphite: view in Willey mts [?]
  • inscription: recto of the mount, lower right, oriented vertically, graphite: 9
  • label: from old backing board, now removed, printed text: [National Gallery of Art seal] / X.58726 Dex ID 288 / Exhibit: East of the Mississippi / Dates: 12 Mar 2017 - 7 Jan 2018 / Attrib.: James Wallace Black / Title: View in Willey Mts / Lender: Harvard Art Museums / Cat. No. 46

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
George G. Wright, to; Fine Arts Library, Harvard University, transfer; to Harvard Art Museums, 1997


Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Fine Arts Library, Harvard University
Accession Year
1997
Object Number
P1997.54.9
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Diane Waggoner, Russell Lord, and Jennifer Raab, East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, 2017), pl. 46, pp. 46, 79

Exhibition History

  • East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography, National Gallery of Art, Landover, 03/12/2017 - 07/16/2017; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, 10/05/2017 - 01/07/2018

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