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Hand X-Ray

Artist Unknown
Date1897
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 5/8 inches (24.13 × 19.37 cm)
Mount: 9 15/16 × 7 15/16 inches (25.24 × 20.16 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3406
InscribedNotations Signed in artist's hand "Taken Jan. 1897" Back of Mount Ink Notations Signed in artist's hand "From an album of School Portraits from Eastern Normal School for Girls, Castine Back of Mount Pencil Description: language continued...Castine, Me."
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionVintage gelatin silver print on original mount. Image of a X-rayed right hand with two rings on ring finger.Exhibition History
Cabinet of Curiosities: Photography & Specimens. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 12 , 2012- February 10, 2013, no cat.
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