Virginia City, Nevada
Artist
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
(American, born Ireland, 1840 - 1882)
Date1868
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 7 13/16 × 10 5/8 inches (19.84 × 26.99 cm)
Mount: 18 1/16 × 24 inches (45.88 × 60.96 cm)
Mount: 18 1/16 × 24 inches (45.88 × 60.96 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3246
Signednone
InscribedOn mount recto, bottom, in black type: "No. " / "U.S. / ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. / GEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION. / FORTIETH PARALLEL. / T. H. O'Sullivan, Photographer."
MarkingsOn mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "19";
On mount verso, lower right, in pencil: "Virginia City Nevada".
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DescriptionImage of a vast, rolling hillside under a clear, light-colored sky. A large mountain ridge rises on the right side of the frame. Many small houses are clustered together scaling up the side of the slope on the left and center of the frame. Winding dirt roads cut across the arid terrain with a few larger structures are in the foreground.Exhibition HistoryTimothy H. O’Sullivan: The King Survey Photographs. The Art Institute of Chicago, October 22, 2011 - January 15, 2012, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 7 - September 2, 2012, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT, January 23 - May 26, 2014, no. 34.
Virginia City and Gold Hill were centers of mining activity on the Comstock Lode, a silver vein roughly four miles long and 600 feet wide. Enormously productive through most of the 1860s, this lode was nearly played out by the early 1870s.
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