P1997.54.2: Reflected Ledge

Identification and Creation

Object Number

P1997.54.2

People

John Adams Whipple, American (Grafton, Mass., USA 1822 - 1891 Boston, Mass., USA)
James Wallace Black, American (1825 - 1896)

Title

Reflected Ledge

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Views of New Hampshire

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1854

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/213723

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Salted paper print

Dimensions

image: 23.4 x 29.6 cm (9 3/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
mount, original: 30.2 x 39 cm (11 7/8 x 15 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: recto of the mount, upper right, graphite: reflected ledge

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

George G. Wright, to the Fine Arts Library, Harvard University.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Fine Arts Library, Harvard University

Accession Year

1997

Object Number

P1997.54.2

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• P. Andrew Spahr, Mount Washington: The Crown of New England, exh. cat., Currier Museum of Art (Manchester, New Hampshire, 2016), pp. 60-61, 104, cat. no. 67, repr. p. 60 as fig. 47

Exhibition History

• A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Photographs, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/29/2000 - 07/23/2000
• Mount Washington: The Crown of New England, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 10/01/2016 - 01/16/2017

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