A black and white landscape photograph of a lake surrounded by trees with a rock face in the background.
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

A black and white landscape with a sepia tone. Bright sunlight shines down on a small, oval lake that is surrounded by scrub vegetation and a sparse group of trees. A sun-drenched rock face rises from behind the lake. A few small trees dot the top of the rock wall. A bearded man stands in the foreground in front of the lake. He wears a hat, long sleeves and pants, and carries a pickax.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.1086
People
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, American (New York, New York 1840 - 1882 Staten Island, New York)
Title
Apache Lake, Sierra Blanca Range, Arizona
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Geographical & Geological Expeditons & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian. Wheeler Expedition of 1873, no. 1
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1873
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Arizona
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/158226

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 20 x 27.3 cm (7 7/8 x 10 3/4 in.)
mount: 40.4 x 51 cm (15 7/8 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: Geographical & Geological Expeditons & 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. 1 [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
2.2002.1086
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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