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 micrometers)
  • Photomicrograph of artist’s monogram in lower right corner of print (scale bar is in millimeters)
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Frederick H. Evans (English, 1853–1943)

Piscina in Chancel of Little Snoring Church, Norfolk, England, c. 1905

Platinum print; 22.8 x 12.7 cm (image/paper); 25.2 x 14.2 cm (first mount); 25.6 x 14.5 cm (second mount); 26.4 x 15.4 cm (third mount); 27.3 x 16.1 cm (fourth mount); 37.7 x 21.5 (fifth mount)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.821

 

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

 

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