Jump to image

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

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Spiritiscal Photograph
PUBLISHED TITLE: Hard Times

ca. 1860
albumen print
13.9 x 19.9 cm.
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 24139
72:0249:0042

OLD GEH NUMBER: EHPC 3014

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Newhall, Beaumont. --The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present.-- New York: Museum of Modern Art; New York Graphic Society Books, Little, Brown & Company, Boston, (revised & enlarged edition) 1982. p. 75.//
Pollack, Peter. --The Picture History of Photography.-- New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1969. p. 177.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"British Masters of the Albumen Print", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, March 16 - August 20, 1973.//
"Locations In Time", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Small Brackett Clark, February 18 - April 10, 1977.//
"Composite Imagery 1850-1935 - The Early History of Photomontage", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, October 27, 1978 - February 18, 1979.//
"Last Decade: The Emergence of Art Photography in the 1890s", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 6 - May 7, 1984.//
"Survey of the History of 19th Century Photography", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Gallery, March 1985 - April 1987, 1985.//
"L'Invention d'un Regard cent Cinquantenaire de la Photographie XIXe Siecle", France, Paris, Musee d'Orsay, October 2 - December 3, 1989.//
"L'ame au corps: arts et sciences", Paris, France, Reunion des Musees Nationaux, October 19, 1993 - January 24, 1994.//

INSCRIPTION: See cataloguing notes

NOTES: Catalogued 5/89, DZ, updated 3/93; 11/96, MAP. Published title listed in B. Newhall's revised edition of "The History of Photography", 1982. The original mount presented the pencil inscription "spiritistical photograph", and it is now missing.

SUBJECTS:
allegory, dream
portrait, family

Jump to text