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The image shows a landscape with a river flowing through the center. The horizon is a densely wooded hillside. The photograph has a sepia tone. Two rustic log cabin-style buildings are near the riverbank. Trees cast shadows on the ground. The color palette includes shades of brown and muted greens. In the distance, the wooded hillside continues.
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The image shows a landscape with a river flowing through the center. The horizon is a densely wooded hillside. The photograph has a sepia tone. Two rustic log cabin-style buildings are near the riverbank. Trees cast shadows on the ground. The color palette includes shades of brown and muted greens. In the distance, the wooded hillside continues.

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

At Bedford Springs

John Moran

Date
c. 1866
Medium
albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 18.8 × 24.3 cm (7 3/8 × 9 9/16 in.) mount: 30.5 × 40.9 cm (12 × 16 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2013.187.1.a
Credit line
Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund and the Randi and Bob Fisher Fund
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CPH
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • albumen silver print
  • Water
  • Pennsylvania
  • landscape
Provenance

(sale, Swann Auction Galleries, New York, 11 December 2012, no. 12, as _At Bedford Springs_); NGA purchase, 2013.

Inscription

on mount, by unknown hand, center below print in brown ink: At Bedford Springs.

NGA object ID 163325. 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.