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A black and white photograph of a rock wall with a five lined carved inscription on its face.

A black and white photograph with a sepia tone. A rock wall has a five-lined inscription carved into it which reads: Por aqui pAzo el Alferes 　 Joseph de Payba Basconzelos　 el ano que tuyo el Cauildo, del　 Reyno a su costA a 18 de febo　 de 1726 Anos =　 A dark ruler lies below the inscription as well as some vegetation.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.1085
People
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, American (New York, New York 1840 - 1882 Staten Island, New York)
Title
Historic Spanish Record of the Conquest. South Side of Inscription Rock, N.M. No. 3
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Geo. M. Wheeler Geographical Survey West of the 100th Meridian, 1873, no. 9
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1873
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, New Mexico
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/155450

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 20 x 27.4 cm (7 7/8 x 10 13/16 in.)
sheet: 40.5 x 50.8 cm (15 15/16 x 20 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto, top center, graphite: Sci2600.290
  • stamp: recto, top center, pre-printed mount: WAR DEPARTMENT [over] CORPS OF ENGINEERS. U.S. ARMY.
  • stamp: verso, top center, black ink: Museum of Comparative [over] Zoology [over] March 22, 1943 [over] LIBRARY [encircled]
  • stamp: recto, top edge above image, pre-printed mount: Geographical & Geological Explorations & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian. Expedition of 1873 - Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, Commanding
  • stamp: recto, bottom edge below image, pre-printed mount: T.H. O'Sullivan, Phot. No. 9 [over] HISTORIC SPANISH RECORD OF THE CONQUEST [over] South Side of Inscription Rock, N.M. No. 3.

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
2.2002.1085
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. 709, fig. 7
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), ill. p. 165

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/10/2016 - 07/14/2016

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