Chesnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia

1855

James McClees

Artist, American, 1822 - 1887

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    albumen print

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    mount: 39.05 × 28.89 cm (15 3/8 × 11 3/8 in.)
    image/sheet: 23.4 × 17.4 cm (9 3/16 × 6 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2017.66.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(William L. Schaeffer / Photographs, Chester, CT); NGA purchase, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

by unknown hand, lower left below image on mount in graphite: old Chesnut St. Theatre; on verso, top right corner in graphite: WSL - 00165

Markings

artist blind stamp in lower right corner on mount: PHOTOGRAPH / --BY-- / McCLEES / 160 CHESNUT ST / PHILAD'A

Wikidata ID

Q64155460

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