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Unidentified artist

TITLE ON OBJECT: Photographer

ca. 1845
lithograph with applied color
23.8 x 18.2 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
85:0661:0001

OLD GEH NUMBERS: 4-84 3.644A17

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "A Touch of Whimsy: Fanicful Decoration and the Camera as a Toy", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - South Gallery, December 14, 1990 - May 5, 1991.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed in image) "Photographer." "An artist, tho' you call yourself, You're but a clumsy cheat, And only fit to take the mugs of loafers on the street. A fire plug, or an awning post, or easy cellar door, Are all the pictures you can take, Don't try any more." verso-(in pencil) "Mr. & Mrs. Linie" (rubber stamp) "Eastman Historical Photographic Collection" "Cromer Collection" (in pencil) "4-84" (lined out) "3.644A17 Clark"

NOTES: Catalogued 10/90, MMC.

SUBJECT: portrait, camera head person

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