The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Table Mountain Above Black Cañon

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Table Mountain Above Black Cañon

Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, born Ireland, 1840–1882)

Date:: 1871
Medium:: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1986
Accession Number:: 1986.1054.24

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Inscribed in the negative: "86"; printed on mount, upper edge: "WAR DEPARTMENT [+ insignia]// Explorations in Nevada and Arizona. Expedition of 1871. Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Com'd'g."; lower edge: "T. H. O'Sullivan, Phot.// COLORADO RIVER SERIES// table mt. above black caÑon// No. 86".
Provenance

Paul Katz
Notes

No. 87, Colorado River Series
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