2.2002.640: Untitled ("A section of an iceberg which was nearly three quarters of a mile long and grounded in nearly 700 ft of water")
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2.2002.640
- People
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John L. Dunmore, American (1823 - 1892)
George P. Critcherson, American (Dorchester, MA 1833 - 1902 Somerville, MA)
Author: William Bradford, American (Fairhaven, MA 1823 - 1892 New York, NY)
- Title
- Untitled ("A section of an iceberg which was nearly three quarters of a mile long and grounded in nearly 700 ft of water")
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: William Bradford, The Arctic regions, illustrated with photographs taken on an art expedition to Greenland (London, 1873), plate 101
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1869
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, Greenland
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/158646
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
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image: 29.5 x 40.7 cm (11 5/8 x 16 in.)
mount: 43 x 53.2 cm (16 15/16 x 20 15/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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inscription: recto of mount, lower left, in ink: A section of an iceberg which was nearly three
quarters of a mile long and grounded in nearly 700 ft of water
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inscription: recto of mount, lower left, in ink: A section of an iceberg which was nearly three
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Transferred from Widener Library
- Accession Year
- 2011
- Object Number
- 2.2002.640
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Commentary
- Section of an Immense Berg, which was nearly half a mile in length, and was grounded in over five hundred feet of water. This Berg shows the texture very finely. Plate 101 in William Bradford, The Arctic regions, illustrated with photographs taken on an art expedition to Greenland (London, 1873).
Verification Level
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