The Alfred Stieglitz Collection
  • Recto of print
  • Verso of original mount
  • Recto of print under ultraviolet (UV) radiation to show varnish fluorescence
  • Photomicrograph showing print and mount interface at corner (scale bar is in millimeters)
  • Photomicrograph showing print surface and pigmented gum layer (scale bar is in millimeters)
  • Photomicrograph showing uneven print surface (scale bar is in micrometers)
  • A photogravure reproduction of this work in Camera Work

Edward Steichen (American, born Luxembourg, 1879–1973)

Midnight Lake George, 1904

Gum bichromate and cyanotype over platinum print; 39.2 x 50.6 cm (image/paper/first mount/second mount)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.829
© 2016 The Estate of Edward Steichen/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

 

A variation of this print also exists in the Alfred Stieglitz Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (1949.830).

 

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

 

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