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

PUBLISHED TITLE: Head of St. John the Baptist in a Charger

ca. 1858
albumen print
14.0 x 18.0 cm. (oval)
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 1460
81:1791:0003

OLD GEH NUMBER: 3036-12

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Pollack, Peter. --The Picture History of Photography.-- New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1958. p. 178.//
Jones, Edgar Yoxall. --Father of Art Photography. O.G. Rejlander 1813-1875.-- Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1973. pg. 83.//
Stephanie Spencer. --O.G. Rejlander Photography as Art.-- Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1981. Fig. 27.//
Dimond, Frances & Taylor, Roger. --Crown & Camera: The Royal Family and Photography, 1842-1910.-- New York: Viking Press, 1987. Fig. 84.//
This image was part of GEH's submission to Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in 1998 (the testbed edition).//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 360.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"British Masters of the Albumen Print", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, March 16 - August 20, 1973.//
"Last Decade: The Emergence of Art Photography in the 1890s", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 6 - May 7, 1984.//
"A Survey of the Photographic Still Life", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Corridor, September 20 - November 4, 1988.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the Collection (reinstallation)", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, September 18, 1993 - June 5, 1994.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the George Eastman House Collection", Japan, Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, November 18, 1995 - January ??, 1996.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(in pencil) "O.J. Rejlander 1858"

NOTES: Catalogued 8/84, updated 9/88, DZ; 11/96, MAP. See Stephanie Spencer, "O.G. Rejlander. Photography as Art", Ann Arbor UMI Research Press, 1981, Fiig. 27-28 for illustration of Rejlander's photographs of St. John the Baptist and Salome. Title listed from Frances Dimond and Roger Taylor, "Crown and Camera. The Royal Family and Photography 1842-1910", 1987, p.134.

SUBJECTS:
allegory, biblical
portrait, biblical / St. John the Baptist