- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2.2002.1626
- People
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Timothy H. O'Sullivan, American (New York, New York 1840 - 1882 Staten Island, New York)
- Title
- Ancient Ruins in the Cañon de Chelle, N.M. In a niche 50 feet above present cañon bed.
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Geo. M. Wheeler Geographical Survey West of the 100th Meridian, 1873, no. 10
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1873
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, New Mexico
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/165773
- Physical Descriptions
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- Technique
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
- image: 27.5 x 20.1 cm (10 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
sheet: 52 x 40.3 cm (20 1/2 x 15 7/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- stamp: recto, top edge, pre-printed mount: Geographical & Geological Explorations & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian. Expedition of 1873 - Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, Commanding
- stamp: recto, on mount below image, pre-printed mount: T.H. O'Sullivan, Phot. No. 10 [over] ANCIENT RUINS IN THE CANON DE CHELLE, N.M. [over] In a niche 50 feet above present Cañon bed.
- stamp: recto, top center, pre-printed mount: WAR DEPARTMENT [over] CORPS OF ENGINEERS. U.S. ARMY.
- inscription: recto, top center, graphite: Sci2600.290
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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
- 2.2002.1626
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Robin Kelsey, Viewing the Archive: Timothy O'Sullivan's Photographs for the Wheeler Survey, 1871-74, The Art Bulletin (December 2003), vol. 85, no. 4: 702-723, p. 703, fig. 1
- Exhibition History
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HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 08 Rotation 1), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/13/2008 - 10/19/2008
Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) #1: CB30 Photography and Society & HAA172w American Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/04/2009 - 10/04/2009
HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 10 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/12/2010 - 01/15/2011
32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 03/04/2015
- Subjects and Contexts
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Google Art Project
Collection Highlights
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