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Rejlander, Oscar
English (b. Sweden, 1813-1875)

PUBLISHED TITLE: Hard Times

1860
albumen print
13.3 x 19.6 cm.
Museum purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEGS: 1462 13983
72:0249:0029

OLD GEH NUMBER: 3014
NON-GEH NUMBER: 828

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Jones, Edgar Yoxall. --Father of Art Photography. O.G. Rejlander 1813-1875.-- Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1973. pg.89.//
Stephanie Spencer. --O.G. Rejlander Photography as Art.-- Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1981. Fig. 13.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"British Masters of the Albumen Print", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, March 16 - August 20, 1973.//
"Composite Imagery 1850-1935 - The Early History of Photomontage", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, October 27, 1978 - February 18, 1979.//
"Survey of the History of 19th Century Photography", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Gallery, March 1985 - April 1987, 1985.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(handwritten in pencil) "photo Rejlander Wolverhampton 1860" "828"

NOTES: Catalogued by J. Buerger/PB, 12/84; updated by MAP, 11/96. The title given to this photograph, "Hard Times", is derived from a novel by Charles Dickens on the victims of the industrial society (see Stephanie Spencer, "O.G. Rejlander. Photography as Art", UMI Research Press, 1981, p. 82).

SUBJECTS:
allegory, poverty
portrait, family

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