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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.561
People
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 ("Arched iceberg in Melville Bay")
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1869
Places
Creation Place: North America, Greenland
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/158917

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 16.4 x 22.5 cm (6 7/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
mount: 33 x 40.6 cm (13 x 16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto, b.r. corner, in black ink: Arched Iceberg in Melville bay

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
2.2002.561
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary
Plate possibly included in William Bradford, The Arctic regions, illustrated with photographs taken on an art expedition to Greenland (London, 1873).

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