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Thomas Annan

Old Vennel, Off High Street, 1868-1871

Not on View

volume Title

Streets and Closes of Glasgow

Medium

carbon print

Dimensions

image: 26.9 x 22.3 cm (10 9/16 x 8 3/4 in.)

sheet: 50.8 x 37.9 cm (20 x 14 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

1995.36.1

Artists / Makers

Thomas Annan (artist) Scottish, 1829 - 1887

Image Use

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Inscription

on mount, lower center printed in black ink: 2. Old Vennel, off High Street; by later hand, on mount, lower right in graphite: R283

Provenance

David and Mary Robinson, Sausalito, CA; NGA purchase, 1995.

Associated Names

Fraenkel Gallery
Robinson, Mrs. C. David

Exhibition History

1986: 19th Century Photographs from the Collection of Mary and David Robinson, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1986.

2016: Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2016 - 2017, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1977: Mozley, Anita V. "Thomas Annan of Glasgow." Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House 20:2 (June 1977), pp.1-12.

1977: Thomas Annan: Photographs of the Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow 1868/1877, with a Supplement of 15 Related Views. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977, illus.pl.2.

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