The Alfred Stieglitz Collection
  • Recto of print
  • Recto of print with original window mat
  • Recto of print with original window mat open
  • Verso of original window mat
  • Photomicrograph showing print surface (scale bar is in millimeters)
  • Photomicrograph showing print surface (scale bar is in micrometers)

Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946)

A Street in Sterzing, The Tyrol, 1890

Platinum print; 21.7 x 15.7 cm (image/paper); 22.3 x 16.2 (secondary support); 50.3 x 32.4 cm (original window mat)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.699

 

Additional resources related to this object are to the right. Comprehensive material analysis is found in the Object Research PDF.

 

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