The Arctic Regions: No. 36. The Glacier As Seen Flowing Or Being Forced Down Between The Hills, Ploughing Up A Moraine Of Earth And Rocks, Twenty To Thirty Feet High, 1869

Not on View

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 11 5/16 x 15 1/2 in. (28.7 x 39.4 cm)
support: 47.9 x 61.8 cm (18 7/8 x 24 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2006.170.3

Artists / Makers

John L. Dunmore (artist) American, 1833 - 1897

George P. Critcherson (artist) American, active 1850s-1870s

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

Printed in letterpress, across bottom on support: No. 36. THE GLACIER AS SEEN FLOWING OR BEING FORCED DOWN BETWEEN TEH HILLS, PLOUGHING UP A MORAINE OF EARTH ADN ROCKS, TWENTY TO THIRTY FEET HIGH.; on verso, by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: William Bradford 81.269

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon; purchase and gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary

Exhibition History

2019: The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.