The Alfred Stieglitz Collection
  • Recto of print
  • Recto of print with original mount
  • Verso of original mount
  • Photomicrograph showing print surface (scale bar is in millimeters)
  • Photomicrograph showing print surface (scale bar is in micrometers)
  • Exhibition view showing a print of the work in American Pictorial Photography (1902)

Clarence H. White (American, 1871–1925)

Sunlight, 1899, printed 1901

Platinum print; 20.8 x 15.4 cm (image); 20.8 x 15.9 (paper); 27.9 x 20.2 (first mount); 36.2 x 27.6 cm (second mount)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.855

 

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