Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00013134Historic Spanish Record of the Conquest, South Side of Inscription Rock, N.M., No. 3
Inscriptions
In red pencil on recto: "1873-#9"; in pencil on recto: "4648"; "917.8 [checkmark] / U.S. Eng. Dept. / Geographical and geological explorations & surveys west of the 100th meridian / Expedition of 1873 [underlined]. Lieut. Col. Geo M. Wheeler com'd'g/.(-Photo.no.9)"; "Spanish invaders cut inscriptions on these / walls, as they passed by, to conquer, in the / name of their king & church."
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Mann December 16, 1987: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, 1840–1882)
- Date
- 1873
- Medium
- albumen print from wet collodion negative
- Dimensions
- Image: 20.5 x 27.6 cm (8 1/16 x 10 7/8 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Mann
- Accession no.
- 1987.178
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