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Grand Cañon, Colorado River, Mouth of Kanab Wash, Looking West
Inscriptions
Scratched into negative: "7"; [unidentifiable mark]; written in pencil on recto: "Photo by W. BELL"; printed in ink on recto: "WAR DEPARTMENT, CORPS [Great Seal of the U.S.] OF ENGINEERS, U.S. ARMY./Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian Expedition of 1872. Under Command of Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Eng'rs. / T. H. O'Sullivan, Phot. [crossed out in pencil] No. 5 / GRAND CAÑON, COLORADO RIVER, NEAR PARIA CREEK, LOOKING WEST." [Note: photo attached to wrong mount]
Provenance
(Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ) June 2, 1997: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Pioneers of Landscape Photography from the Museum's Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 12, 2000-January 3, 2001). Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- William H. Bell (American, 1830–1910)
- Date
- 1872
- Medium
- albumen print from tannin dry plate negative
- Dimensions
- Image: 27.5 x 20.2 cm (10 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.); Matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 1997.130
More by William H. Bell in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00013104
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