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

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: The Bachelor's Dream

ca. 1860
albumen print
14.0 x 19.6 cm.
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEGS: 1465 13984
72:0249:0035

OLD GEH NUMBER: EHPC 3014

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Pollock, Peter. --The Picture History of Photography.-- US, NY, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969. pg. 176.//
Jones, Edgar Yoxall. --Father of Art Photography. O.G. Rejlander 1813-1875.-- Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1973. pg. 90.//
Stephanie Spencer. --O.G. Rejlander Photography as Art.-- Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1981. Fig. 9.//
Sobieszek, Robert A. --Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections.-- New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. Fig. 43.//
This image was part of GEH's 1998 submission (the testbed edition) to AMICO (Art Museum Imaging Consortium).//
Hirsch, Robert. --Seizing the Light: A History of Photography.-- New York: McGraw Hill, 1999. p. 125.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"British Masters of the Albumen Print", US, NY, Rochester March 16 - August 20, 1973.//
"Locations In Time", US, NY, Rochester February 18 - April 10, 1977.//
"Composite Imagery 1850-1935 - The Early History of Photomontage", US, NY, Rochester October 27, 1978 - February 18, 1979.//
"Last Decade: The Emergence of Art Photography in the 1890s", US, NY, Rochester January 6 - May 7, 1984.//
"Survey of the History of 19th Century Photography", US, NY, Rochester March 1985 - April 1987.//
"L'Invention d'un Regard cent Cinquantenaire de la Photographie XIXe Siecle", France, Paris October 2 - December 3, 1989.//
"L'ame au corps: arts et sciences", Paris, France October 19, 1993 - January 24, 1994.//
"Lost Paradise: Symbolist Europe", Canada, QUE, Montreal June 8 - October 15, 1995.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(signed and dated in pencil) "O.G. Rejlander 1860"

NOTES: Catalogued 5/89, DZ, updated 3/93; 11/96, MAP. Title listed from Stephanie Spencer, "O.G. Rejlander Photography as Art", Ann Arbor, UMI Research Press, 1981, pp.79-80.

SUBJECTS:
allegory, dream
portrait, male
artifact, crinoline

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