Mehemed Fehmy Agha
Hirsch

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Hirsch
Date1938
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsIrregular: 7 11/16 × 9 5/8 in. (19.5 × 24.4 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Joan Morgenstern
Object number2009.1602
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York]; purchased by Joan Morgenstern, Houston, March 3, 1990; given to MFAH, 2009.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in ink on verso center: "Hirsch"
Stamped on verso upper left: "FROM THE ESTATE OF DR. / M.F. AGHA",
Stamped on verso center: "JUN 2 1938"
Stamped on verso lower right: "THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS NO. 1 / OF 2 KNOWN TO EXIST

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