The Alfred Stieglitz Collection
  • Recto of print
  • Recto of print with original mount
  • Verso of original mount

Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946)

The Terminal, 1893

Photogravure; 25.5 x 33.5 cm (image); 28 x 39.8 cm (paper); 42 x 50.1 cm (mount)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.848

 

A later print of this image also exists in the Alfred Stieglitz Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (1949.706).

Additional resources related to this object are to the right.

 

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