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after conservation, 5/2011
Washakie Badlands, Wyoming
after conservation, 5/2011
after conservation, 5/2011

Washakie Badlands, Wyoming

Artist Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, born Ireland, 1840 - 1882)
Date1872
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage: 8 x 11 inches (20.32 x 27.94 cm)
Sheet: 13 x 15 inches (33.02 x 38.1 cm)
Mat (exhibition): 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 60.96 cm)
Framed: 23 3/8 × 27 1/2 × 1 5/8 inches (59.37 × 69.85 × 4.13 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2010.18.31
InscribedOn mount with lithographed text: on left side below print: "Wyoming Territory", on right side below print: "Mauvaises terres, Washakie Basin, No.-"; general survey credit in lower center of mount: U.S./Engineering Department/ Geological Exploration,/ Fortieth Parallel./T.H. O'Sullivan, Photographer." On back of mount, lower center in pencil: "THO/1332".
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DescriptionView of standing rock formations: larger formation with attached ridge on left, smaller, lower column on right.Exhibition History

Timothy 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. 70.

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