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

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Two Urchins playing a Game

ca. 1860
albumen print
15.4 x 12.4 cm. (arched corners)
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEGS: 13978 2912
81:1791:0011

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Victorians and Early Pictorialists", US, MA, Cambridge, Fogg Museum of Art, July 12 - August 31, 1971.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(in pencil) "O.G. Rejlander 1860"

NOTES: Catalogued 11/96, MAP. This picture can be grouped with Rejlander's series of homeless children and leisure activities (see Stephanie Spencer, "O.G.Rejlander Photography as Art", Ann Arbor, UMI Press, 1981, pp. 86-87).

SUBJECTS:
portrait, children
occupation, game

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