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Harvard-Yale Football Match, November 21, 1891
American
1891
Medium/Technique
Photo-mechanical relief process, on two sheets of newsprint
Dimensions
Height x width: 16.9 × 27 cm (6 5/8 × 10 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Boston Engraving Co.
Accession NumberM8366
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
DescriptionThese sheets from the Boston "Sunday Herald" of November 22, 1891, are the last items in a suite of objects meant to illustrate the process of publishing a photograph in the daily newspaper. The full suite bear MFA object numbers M8361 - M8366.
In his catalogue to the 1892 "Exhibition Illustrating the Technical Methods of the Reproductive Arts," Sylvester Koehler described the process as follows: "The drawing, based upon a small instantaneous photograph, was finished by evening, the negative was made by 10.30 P. M., and the block was ready for the printer by 12.30 A.M., Nov. 22. It appeared in the Boston “Morning Herald,” of Nov. 22, 1891."
In his catalogue to the 1892 "Exhibition Illustrating the Technical Methods of the Reproductive Arts," Sylvester Koehler described the process as follows: "The drawing, based upon a small instantaneous photograph, was finished by evening, the negative was made by 10.30 P. M., and the block was ready for the printer by 12.30 A.M., Nov. 22. It appeared in the Boston “Morning Herald,” of Nov. 22, 1891."
InscriptionsLower center, in image, in plate: Boston Eng Co.
Lower center of upper sheet, in stereotype: Harvard Attempts to Break the Centre. / (Drawn by Mr. Henry Sandham)
Upper right of lower sheet, in manuscript: no 6.
Lower center of lower sheet, in stereotype: Boston Herald. / ...s Boston, Sunday Morning, November 21, 1891 --- Twenty-Eight Pages. Price
Verso: [stereotyped text]
Lower center of upper sheet, in stereotype: Harvard Attempts to Break the Centre. / (Drawn by Mr. Henry Sandham)
Upper right of lower sheet, in manuscript: no 6.
Lower center of lower sheet, in stereotype: Boston Herald. / ...s Boston, Sunday Morning, November 21, 1891 --- Twenty-Eight Pages. Price
Verso: [stereotyped text]
Provenance1892, gift of Boston Engraving Company, Boston, to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: March 15, 1892)