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A black and white photograph of a landscape with two vast Rocky Mountains and land in the middle of them.

A black and white photograph of a landscape of two vast blocks of Rock formations. On the right, the rocky mountain seems to be higher and longer in perspective than the one on the opposite stance. On the left side of the photograph the rocky hill front part is visible. On the bottom, in the between the two blocks of rock is found an arid dry ground, bushes and different kinds of trees are spread throughout this space.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.1019
People
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, American (New York, New York 1840 - 1882 Staten Island, New York)
Title
Head of Cañon de Chelle, Looking Down, Walls about 1200 Feet in Height
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Geographical & Geological Expeditons & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian. Wheeler Expedition of 1873, no. 16
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1873
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/158121

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 20 x 27.5 cm (7 7/8 x 10 13/16 in.)
mount: 40.6 x 51 cm (16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto, top center, pre-printed mount: WAR DEPARTMENT [over] CORPS OF ENGINEERS, U.S. ARMY.
  • inscription: recto, top center, graphite: Sci2600.290
  • stamp: recto, top edge above image, pre-printed mount: Geographical & Geological Expeditons & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian. Expedition of 1873 - Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, Commanding
  • inscription: recto, bottom edge below image, pre-printed mount: T.H. O'Sullivan, Phot. No. 16 [over title]

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
2.2002.1019
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/18/2016 - 03/07/2017

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