Artist
Jaromír Funke (Czech, 1896–1945)Czech, 1896–1945
CultureCzech
Titles
- Staircase of Old Prague
Date1922, printed 1924
Place depictedPrague, Czechoslovakia
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 × 8 1/4 in. (22.9 × 21 cm)
Sheet: 9 × 8 1/4 in. (22.9 × 21 cm)
Mount: 17 3/4 × 13 3/8 in. (45.1 × 34 cm)
Sheet: 9 × 8 1/4 in. (22.9 × 21 cm)
Mount: 17 3/4 × 13 3/8 in. (45.1 × 34 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Max and Isabell Smith Herzstein
Object number84.94
Non exposé
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Department
PhotographyObject Type
Exhibition HistoryToronto Camera Club, 33rd Annual Salon of Pictorial Photography, Canadian National Exhibition, 1924.
"Evocative Presence: Twentieth Century Photographs in the Museum Collection", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston February 27 - May 1, 1988
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso top right in pencil "neg 502[underlined]"
top left in ink "Jar. Funke, Kolin III|19 Czechoslovokia, Europe[underlined] / 6|Staircase of old Prague|bromide| / [an illegible line in pencil]"
top left in ink "Jar. Funke, Kolin III|19 Czechoslovokia, Europe[underlined] / 6|Staircase of old Prague|bromide| / [an illegible line in pencil]"
bottom right below image on mount in pencil "Funke[underlined] 24"
verso upper left a printed label for the 33rd salon show of the Toronto Camera Club, listing this print as #392 in the catalogue
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