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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1982.368.2
People
Various Artists
Title
Cape Town
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
album
Date
c. 1880-c. 1881
Places
Creation Place: Africa, South Africa
Culture
Unidentified culture
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/284318

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Leather bound album of albumen prints. Cover is tooled, gilt wording and decorations on spine and front cover, pages are gilt edged.
Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
36 x 31 x 6 cm (14 3/16 x 12 3/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: many signed and numbered in the negative

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., New York, New York, sold to Seiden & de Cuevas Inc., 1980.
Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., New York, New York, purchased from Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, N, 1980, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1982. on Long Term Loan to the Fogg Art Museum from 1980 to 1982

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden
Object Number
P1982.368.2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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