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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.78.15
People
Patti Smith, American (Chicago, Illinois born 1946)
Title
The River Ouse, East Sussex, England
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The PRC Portfolio
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
2003
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/332446

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pigmented inkjet print on Harman Warmtone matte fiber based paper with graphite inscriptions
Technique
Ink jet digital print
Dimensions
22.8 x 17.5 cm (9 x 6 7/8 in.)
sheet: 40.5 x 33 cm (15 15/16 x 13 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto, all around edge of image, in graphite: On March 28, 1941 Virginia Woolf took her own life by drowning on / the River Ouse near her home Monk's House on Sussex / with heavy stones in the pocket of her long coat

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts, sold to Fogg Museum, 2009.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
8/35

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs
Accession Year
2009
Object Number
2009.78.15
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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