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In the image, there is a view of a town on the other side of a body of water. The horizon is formed by dark hills with softer mountains in the distance. Close to the viewer, there is a rocky outcrop in the bottom left corner. The town has buildings lining the water's edge, some with sloping roofs and two white structures with steeples. The overall color scheme is sepia-toned, adding a vintage feel.
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In the image, there is a view of a town on the other side of a body of water. The horizon is formed by dark hills with softer mountains in the distance. Close to the viewer, there is a rocky outcrop in the bottom left corner. The town has buildings lining the water's edge, some with sloping roofs and two white structures with steeples. The overall color scheme is sepia-toned, adding a vintage feel.

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

Acapulco

Eadweard Muybridge

Date
1877
Medium
albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 13.6 x 23.2 cm (5 3/8 x 9 1/8 in.) mount: 25 x 32.3 cm (9 13/16 x 12 11/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2004.163.7
Credit line
Gift of Mitchell and Nancy Steir
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CPH
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • albumen silver print
  • topographical
  • landscape
  • Lake
Provenance

(Janet Lehr, New York); Private Collection; (Solomon Fine Art, Monarch Beach, California); Mitchell and Nancy Steir, New York; gift to NGA, 2004.

Inscription

in negative: 4476; On mount, lower left, printed: Muybridge, Photo.; lower right, printed: San Francisco.; lower left in graphite: Acapulco; upper right in graphite: P.120

NGA object ID 131743. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.