Baron Adolf De Meyer
The Silver Cap

ArtistAmerican, born France, 1868–1946
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • The Silver Cap
  • from Camera Work, Number 40
Datec. 1909, published October 1912
MediumPhotogravure
DimensionsImage: 9 7/16 × 5 3/8 in. (24 × 13.7 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/16 × 7 15/16 in. (28.4 × 20.2 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number78.86.2
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[The Cronin Gallery, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 1978.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "Circle of Stieglitz ... from Houston Collections," Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 6 March - 4 April 1982 (LN:82.18)

Exhibited "Dressed to Celebrate: Evening Wear in the Twentieth Century" February 23 - May 8, 1988

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Baron Adolf De Meyer
c. 1912
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Marchesa Casati
Baron Adolf De Meyer
c. 1912
Photogravure
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Miss J. Ranken
Baron Adolf De Meyer
published October 1912
Photogravure
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Teddie
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published October 1912
Photogravure
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published October 1912
Photogravure
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Baron Adolf De Meyer
c. 1912, published October 1912
Photogravure
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Baron Adolf De Meyer
published October 1912
Photogravure
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Baron Adolf De Meyer
published October 1912
Photogravure
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Baron Adolf De Meyer
c. 1912, published October 1912
Photogravure
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Baron Adolf De Meyer
published October 1912
Photogravure
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Baron Adolf De Meyer
c. 1912
Photogravure
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