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Lion – Vintage Wall Art

Lion, c[between 1900 and 1912] — historic photograph
Lion, 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Lion. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few of the Detroit Publishing Company's Washington views focus on a single sculpture, which makes this lion stand out. It was photographed at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which William Wilson Corcoran founded in 1869 as one of the capital's first private art galleries open to the public. The company's glass-plate negative, which measures 8 by 10 inches, was probably made between 1900 and 1912, a date based on a 1912 publication by Thistle Publications. The plate later came to the State Historical Society of Colorado as a gift in 1949, preserving a record of how the museum's grounds and collections appeared to travelers and publishers of the era.

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. M 29946. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 767 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-75941

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