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Frederick DeBourg Richards

Arch St. Theatre, Arch at 6th St., Philadelphia, c. 1859

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Medium

salted paper print

Dimensions

image: 21.6 × 16.8 cm (8 1/2 × 6 5/8 in.)

sheet: 22 × 17.4 cm (8 11/16 × 6 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Ph.D

Accession Number

2018.23.22

Artists / Makers

Frederick DeBourg Richards (artist) American, 1822 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, on lower left, in blue graphite: Arch St. Theatre / 6th + Arch Sts

Provenance

(Richard Rosenthal, Philadelphia, PA); Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Collection, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Isaacs, Charles

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.

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