2.2002.567: Untitled ("Section of the side of the glacier at Germitsialik")

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2.2002.567

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 ("Section of the side of the glacier at Germitsialik")

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: William Bradford, The Arctic regions, illustrated with photographs taken on an art expedition to Greenland (London, 1873), plate 41

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1869

Places

Creation Place: North America, Greenland

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/158921

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Albumen silver print

Dimensions

image: 22.8 x 18.6 cm (9 x 7 5/16 in.)
mount: 40.6 x 32.6 cm (16 x 12 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: recto, b.l. corner, in black ink: Section of the side of the glacier at Germitsialik [sic]

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

2.2002.567

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Commentary

Side View of the front of the Glacier, about 200 feet above the water. Plate 41 in William Bradford, The Arctic regions, illustrated with photographs taken on an art expedition to Greenland (London, 1873).

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