Title from caption on object: “Exiled Scientist en Route to London Haven”

June 5, 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 21.1 × 16.5 cm (8 5/16 × 6 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.308


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Ebay.com); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, upper right in black ink on applied label: RT 7451 / -7452; center printed in purple ink on applied paper perpendicular: WIDE WORLD PHOTO : PLEASE WATCH CREDIT / 892887 EXILED SCIENTIST EN ROUTE TO LONDON / HAVEN / PARIS.-- PROFESSOR SIGMUND FREUD [underlined and circled in red ink and graphite] AND HIS DAUGHTER, [underlined in red ink] / [by unknown hand in red ink: x] ANNA. [underlined in red ink] PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE WINDOW OF THEIR TRAIN / UPON ARRIVING HERE JUNE 5 FROM VIENNA, WHERE LIFE / UNDER THE NAZI REGIME BECAME TOO DIFFICULT FOR THE / "FATHER OF PSYCHOANALYSIS." AFTER SPENDING A FEW / HOURS IN PARIS RESTING, PROF. FREUD LEFT FOR HIS / HAVEN IN ENGLAND "TO PEACE, STUDY AND WORK." / T-6/13/38 (s) PAR BUR; center right stamped in black ink perpendicular: TRIBUNE OUT ORDER / Subject [by unknown hand in graphite: Freud] / Size [by unknown hand in graphite: 3 1/8" wide x 5 5/8"] / For [by unknown hand in graphite: P. Feature] edition [illegible] [by unknown hand in graphite: Thursday makeup] / Ordered by / Time; lower left Wide World Photos, Inc. copyright stamp in purple ink inverted and partially visible; lower left stamped in green ink: JUN 14 1938 PM


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