Artist:

Powers, Hiram 1805-1873  Search this

Photographic firm:

Detroit Publishing Co.  Search this

Type:

Photograph

Date:

1846

Notes:

On photo mount label: H. Powers. Greek slave. Washington, Corcoran Art Gallery. Photographer: Detroit Publishing Co. Gift of: Carnegie Corporation of New York. Classification number: 282/2d copy. Accession: 17860. On second photo mount label: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/The Library/This Collection of Photographs/Desirable in the Study of Art/was assembled by/The Carnegie Corporation/of New York/and Presented to the Museum/in the Year 1930/(stamped:) 1741. On third and fourth photo mount labels (one on recto and one on verso of mount): AMERICAN SCULPTURE/Powers, Hiram (1805-1873)/Greek Slave/1843/Marble/ca. Life-Size/WASHINGTON, CORCORAN ART GALLERY.

On photo, lower left: COPR. DETROIT PUBLISHING CO.

1 photographic print : b&w, 8 7/8 x 7 in. (trimmed), mounted on 9 3/4 x 13 7/8 in. board.

Topic:

Figure female--Nude  Search this

Figure female--Full length  Search this

State of Being--Other--Enslaved  Search this

Ethnic  Search this

Image number:

SSC S0001903

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Study Collection of American Sculpture Photographs

Data Source:

Photograph Study Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum

EDAN-URL:

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