Add to Collection

Add this item to an existing or new collection.
Harvard Art Museums
Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
A black and white photograph of a landscape shows a man sitting on a rock in the middle of a valley

A black and white photograph shows an extensive landscape of a river in the middle of a valley surrounded by rocky mountains. Two stony-rough mountains are found in both sides of the picture, the one on the left side is longer and brighter than the one on the right. A slow-moving river is passing in between the mountains. In the middle-lower part of the picture a man wearing a sombrero is portrayed sitting on the rocks found at the water’s edge.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.1063
People
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, American (New York, New York 1840 - 1882 Staten Island, New York)
Title
Iceberg Canon, Colorado River, Looking Above
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Explorations in Nevada and Arizona. Wheeler Expedition of 1871, no. 15
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1871
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/158215

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 20 x 27.4 cm (7 7/8 x 10 13/16 in.)
mount: 40.5 x 51 cm (15 15/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • 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, top edge above image, pre-printed mount: Explorations in Nevada and Arizona. Expedition of 1871 - Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Com'd'g.
  • stamp: recto, bottom edge below image, pre-printed mount: T.H. O'Sullivan, Phot. No. 15 [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
2.2002.1063
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Verification Level

This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu