Close No. 193 High St., Glasgow, Scotland
Artist
Thomas Annan
(Scottish, 1829 - 1887)
Dateca. 1868-1877
MediumCarbon print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 11 1/4 × 9 3/16 inches (28.58 × 23.34 cm)
Mount: 19 1/8 × 15 1/8 inches (48.58 × 38.42 cm)
Mount: 19 1/8 × 15 1/8 inches (48.58 × 38.42 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2006.30.1
Signednone
InscribedOn mount recto, bottom, in black type: "9. Close, No. 193 High Street."
Markingsnone
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of children (blurry) seated on an exterior staircase in an alley. Laundry is draped over poles which extend out of windows and across the alley.Gallery LabelIn the decades prior to the 1860s, Glasgow’s population grew rapidly. Slums increasingly posed a health and safety hazard, prompting the Scottish government to embark on a large urban-renewal project. The Glasgow City Improvement Trust hired Thomas Annan to document dirty and congested areas such as this close (a road closed at one end) prior to demolition. Here, as in other works from this series, Annan’s lengthy exposure allowed most passersby to blur into invisibility.
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William James Stillman
ca. 1869
2005.27.3107
