About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Irving Penn
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Title
- Chimney Sweep (B), London
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Origin
- United States
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Date
- Made 1950
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Medium
- Platinum-palladium print; edition 5/27
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed verso: “SWEEP, LONDON 1950”; inscribed verso: “P485 / .. [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “5/27”; inscribed verso: “Platinum-palladium / Print made 1967”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer [in a circle]”; stamped verso: “Deacidified to pH 8.5 9.5”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1951 by THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS LTD / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition to 27 prints of this / image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 4 may exist. / I.P.”
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Dimensions
- 49.3 × 37.5 cm (image); 57 × 45.5 cm (paper)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Irving Penn
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Reference Number
- 1996.263
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Copyright
- Copyright Condé Nast Publications, Inc.
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