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

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:
Pollock, Peter. --The Picture History of Photography.-- US, NY, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969. p. 177.//
Newhall, Beaumont. --The History of Photography, from 1839 to the Present.-- New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1982. p. 75.//
This image was part of GEH's 1998 submission (the testbed edition) to AMICO (Art Museum Imaging Consortium).//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 361.//
This image was part of GEH's 2000 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

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.//

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

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