The Hudson River: From the Source to the Sea In Photographic Salt Prints, Portfolio Containing Transcript and Two Photographs
David A. Hanson
Contemporary Art
MEDIUM
Salted paper photograph
DATES
1987
DIMENSIONS
portfolio: 15 1/2 x 21 1/2 x 1 in. (39.4 x 54.6 x 2.5 cm)
INSCRIPTIONS
Inscribed: "Lecture 'American Landscape Scenery' by Thomas Cole - Lecture given in 1841"
ACCESSION NUMBER
87.59
CREDIT LINE
Caroline H. Polhemus Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Lecture (transcript) is American Scenery Lecture by Thomas Cole with handset letterpress and wood engravings by John de Pohl.
The portfolio is covered in marbelized paper repoduced by hand from a pattern of the 1840s, published in an edition of 10 with 2 salt prints on plain salted paper. Photographic statement included. Published by Leonard Seastpone at Tidewater Press.
MUSEUM LOCATION
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EDITION
Edition: 3/10, from an edition of 10 with 2 plates
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