Group Portraits of Costumed Participants of the Narrenball

CultureGerman
Titles
  • Group Portraits of Costumed Participants of the Narrenball
Date1853
MediumSalted paper prints with applied color
DimensionsImage (.A): 10 1/4 × 8 5/16 in. (26 × 21.1 cm)
Image (.B): 10 13/16 × 7 7/8 in. (27.4 × 20 cm)
Sheet (.A): 10 1/4 × 8 5/16 in. (26 × 21.1 cm)
Sheet (.B): 10 13/16 × 7 7/8 in. (27.4 × 20 cm)
Mount: 12 9/16 × 18 13/16 in. (31.9 × 47.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern
Object number2021.308.A,.B
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 19th-21st Century Photography Auction, June 16, 2021, Lot 4004]; purchased by MFAH, 2021.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed, mount recto, top left corner: K.G II
Inscribed in black ink, mount recto, top center: Gesellschaft “Stubenvoll.” // P. Phot 435 [faintly visible]
Inscribed in black ink, mount recto, below image (.A) left to right: Rhomberg Dr. v. Wenzel [illegible] Liersen Füssli. // [illegible faint inscriptions]
Inscribed in black ink, mount recto, below image (.B) left to right: C. Freiherr v. Seckendorf. [illegible] Nibler, [illegible] Liersen Füssli
Inscribed in black ink, mount recto, bottom center: “Narrenball” 1853 im Odeon.

[no verso inscriptions]

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