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Lady and horse – Vintage Wall Art

Lady and horse, c[between 1900 and 1912] — historic photograph
Lady and horse, c[between 1900 and 1912]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Rather than a building or a landscape, this glass negative records a sculpture of a woman beside a horse, displayed at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The Corcoran, founded in 1869 and opened to the public in 1874, was one of the city's earliest art museums, and its sculpture halls drew visitors who wanted to see works in marble and bronze. The Detroit Publishing Company made such photographs of museum pieces and scenic views for sale to tourists and collectors in the years around 1900 to 1912, when the dating is based. The negative later passed through the State Historical Society of Colorado, which received it as a gift in 1949.

Created / publishedc[between 1900 and 1912]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDate based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of a sculpture at Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 029944. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 744 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-75940

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