Niagara Falls
Artist
George Barker
(American, born Canada, 1844 - 1894)
Date1886
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage: 21 1/8 × 17 9/16 inches (53.66 × 44.61 cm)
Sheet (irregular): 21 1/4 × 17 15/16 inches (53.98 × 45.56 cm)
Mount: 24 × 20 inches (60.96 × 50.8 cm)
Sheet (irregular): 21 1/4 × 17 15/16 inches (53.98 × 45.56 cm)
Mount: 24 × 20 inches (60.96 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3503
SignedCopyright stamp on mount verso, center, in black type: "Copyright 1886, by George Barker"
InscribedOn mount verso, center, in black type: "GOLD MEDAL PRIZE PHOTOGRAPHS. / GEO. BARKER, / Landscape Photographer, FACTORY AND SALESROOMS, / No 11 MAIN STREET, NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. / NIAGRA, FLORIDA AND OTHER AMERICAN SCENERY, / Special Grand Prize.--Diamond Badge--Photographers Assn. of America,--1887. / AWARDED / EIGHT / FIRST PRIZE / MEDALS. / GRAND / GOLD MEDAL / ST. LOUIS, / 1886"
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DescriptionVintage albumen print of Niagara FallsPublished ReferencesDiane Waggoner, Russell Lord, and Jennifer Raab. East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography (Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art Washington and New Orleans, LA: New Orleans Museum of Art, 2017), 212 (repro.).
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