2.2002.1071: Cañon de Chelle, Walls of the Grand Cañon about 1200 feet in height.

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2.2002.1071

People

Timothy H. O'Sullivan, American (New York, New York 1840 - 1882 Staten Island, New York)

Title

Cañon de Chelle, Walls of the Grand Cañon about 1200 feet in height.

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Geo. M. Wheeler Geographical Survey West of the 100th Meridian, 1873, no. 15

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1873

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, New Mexico

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/155990

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Albumen silver print

Dimensions

image: 21 x 27.6 cm (8 1/4 x 10 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• stamp: recto, top edge, 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, top center, pre-printed mount: WAR DEPARTMENT [over] CORPS OF ENGINEERS. U.S. ARMY.
• inscription: recto, top center, graphite: Sci2600.290
• stamp: recto, below image, pre-printed mount: T.H. O'Sullivan, Phot. No. 15 [over] CANON DE CHELLE, [over] Walls of the Grand Cañon about 1200 feet in height.

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

2.2002.1071

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/14/2016 - 11/18/2016

Subjects and Contexts

• Collection Highlights

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