2.2002.1019: Head of Cañon de Chelle, Looking Down, Walls about 1200 Feet in Height
PhotographsA 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
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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
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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
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- 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
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/18/2016 - 03/07/2017
Verification Level
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