April 16, 1893
1997
Artist, American, born 1944

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.5 × 20 cm (9 5/8 × 7 7/8 in.)
sheet: 30 × 25 cm (11 13/16 × 9 13/16 in.) -
Accession
2013.82.1
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Copyright
Courtesy of the University of California Observatories. This image is from the Lick Observatory's Mount Hamilton Plate Archives. Copyright held by the Regents of the University of California.
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Linda Connor; NGA purchase (through Haines Gallery, San Francisco), 2013.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2015
The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2015, no. 27.
Inscriptions
on verso, signed by artist lower right in graphite: Linda S. Connor / 1997; lower left: Contact printed in Sunlight / with the original glass plate / negative on printing out paper. / Glass plate Archive, Lick / Observatory Mt. Hamilton, Ca. / copyright Regents University of California; center: April 16 1893 / cracked / (Chile); bottom center: April 16 1893; by unknown hand, top left in graphite: Ha5551
Wikidata ID
Q64157462