Portrait of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe

Inscriptions

Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, upper right, diagonally, in graphite: Portrait / Mrs. H; verso, right center, diagonally, in graphite: Sears; verso, center, in graphite: Copy [?] title; verso, lower center, in graphite: [?] 3/8 flat white on / R 19 x 21 3/[?] / failure [?] on Jap. [?] Paper. [?] / According to marks / on this Sheet. ["She" underlined] / Sears ["ar" underlined]

Exhibition history

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, "Alfred Stieglitz and his Contemporaries," September 9–November 3, 1997.

Publications

Shimbun, Asahi. 1997. “Alfred Stieglitz and his Contemporaries.” Exh. cat. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. p. 84. pl. 71.

Quick Overview

Artist: Sarah Choate Sears / American, 1858–1935
Date: c. 1900
Medium: Platinum print
Dimensions: Image/paper: 24 × 18.5 cm (9 1/2 × 7 5/16 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: platinum print
Place: United States
Department: Photography and Media
Credit line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession no.: 1949.861

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.