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Taken from Nature
Printed by: Schweizer Autotyp-Anstalt (Swiss)
Swiss
1888
Medium/Technique
Autotype
Dimensions
Sheet: 26.8 × 19.3 cm (10 9/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession Number98.1923
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
DescriptionPublished as Supplement to The Photographic News 32, no. 1574 (November 2,1888).
Marks
Verso, center, stamped in violet ink, the collector's mark of Sylvester Rosa Koehler (Lugt 1580)
InscriptionsTop center, in plate: Supplement to >The Photographic News< / 2d November 1888.
Lower right, in plate: Autotyp. Winterthur
Lower center, in plate: Taken from Nature
Bottom center, in plate: Letter-Press Printing by The Swiss Autotype Company, Winterthur.
Lower right, in plate: Autotyp. Winterthur
Lower center, in plate: Taken from Nature
Bottom center, in plate: Letter-Press Printing by The Swiss Autotype Company, Winterthur.
ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 14, 2023)
NOTE:
Koehler was the first Print Curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. He deposited the majority of his collection at the MFA in 1895-1896. The gift of Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.
NOTE:
Koehler was the first Print Curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. He deposited the majority of his collection at the MFA in 1895-1896. The gift of Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.