The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Tropical Scenery, Santa Maria del Real, Darien

Tropical Scenery, Santa Maria del Real, Darien

Date:: 1871
Medium:: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions:: Image: 20 x 27.3 cm (7 7/8 x 10 3/4 in.) Mount: 30.5 x 38.2 cm (12 x 15 1/16 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005
Accession Number:: 2005.100.936

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Printed on mount, recto BL: "DARIEN EXPEDITION"; Printed on mount, recto BC: "TROPICAL SCENERY//SANTA MARIA DEL REAL, DARIEN"; Printed on mount, recto BR: "COMD'R SELFRIDGE, Comd'g"
Provenance

[Swann Galleries, New York City, from sale April 23, 1981, lot #362]; Lunn Gallery, April 27, 1981; Gilman Paper Company Collection, New York
Notes

According to Navy geographic reports and routes, O'Sullivan photographed the Atlantic side in 1870 of Panama and never went to the Pacific. Moran photographed the Pacific side in 1871.
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