Captain Alfred G. Buckham, RN
Full Speed Ahead

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Artist Captain Alfred G. Buckham, RNBritish, 1879–1956

CultureBritish

Titles

Full Speed Ahead
A Summer Storm
Battleship in the North Sea

Date1918

MediumGelatin silver print with chalk

DimensionsImage: 17 3/4 × 14 3/4 in. (45.1 × 37.5 cm)
Sheet: 17 3/4 × 14 3/4 in. (45.1 × 37.5 cm)
Mount: 25 × 20 in. (63.5 × 50.8 cm)
Frame (outer): 30 7/8 × 24 7/8 × 1 3/4 in. (78.5 × 63.2 × 4.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Randolph F. Allen, Pedro Frommer, Steve Gibson, Wilson Griffith, Craig Massey, Arthur Seeligson III, Abbott Sprague, Henry J. N. Taub II, and John Wombwell in honor of James C. Flores, "The Houston Storm," at "One Great Night in November, 2010"

Object number2011.245

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance[Howard Greenberg Gallery LLC, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2011.
Exhibition HistoryCambridge University

"WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 November, 2012 - 3 February, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

In pencil on reverse backboard (since removed): "Battleship / In the North Sea"

Other scattered notations in pencil.

Signed in pencil on mount: "Alfred G. Buckham Capt: / lab (?) R.A.F. C. (?)"

Printed in lower left: "Full speed ahead"

Photographer's copyright and Cambridge University exhibition stamp on reverse. (Unable to view - mat is taped together)

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