The Alfred Stieglitz Collection
  • Recto of print
  • Recto of print with original mount
  • Verso of original mount
  • Exhibition view showing a print of the work in Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz at 291 (1913)
  • Exhibition view showing a print of the work in American Pictorial Photography (1902)

Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946)

Spring – The Child, 1901

Photogravure; 24.5 x 30.5 cm (image); 30.3 x 42 cm (paper); 43.5 x 55.4 cm (mount)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.837

 

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