38 Quai de Bourbon

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget

Title

38 Quai de Bourbon

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1908

Medium

Albumen print

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, in negative, lower right, backwards, in black ink: "5500 [bottom cut off]"; inscribed verso, along upper edge, in graphite: "quai Bourbon 38. 5500 ["00" underlined/last "0" covered by adhesive]"; verso, center, in graphite: "Photos achchè [?] a L'Adget [sic] / en 1909. sans numiero de chichès [?]"; stamped verso, lower center, in purple ink: "[?/PRO]DUCTION / INTERDITE / PHOTO / E. ATGET [underlined] / COLLECTION / BÉRÉNICE ABBOTT / 18, Rue Servandoni / PARIS 6E ["E" in superscript] LITTRÉ 74-69 [in rectangle starting with "PHOTO"]"

Dimensions

Image/paper: 22 × 17.4 cm (8 11/16 × 6 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Wirt D. Walker Fund and Laura T. Magnuson Endowment

Reference Number

1980.352

Extended information about this artwork

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