Alvin Langdon Coburn
On the Embankment

ArtistBritish, born United States, 1882–1966
CultureBritish
Titles
  • On the Embankment
  • from Camera Work, Number 28
Datec. October 1909, published October 1909
Place depictedLondon, England
MediumPhotogravure
DimensionsImage: 8 7/16 × 6 3/16 in. (21.4 × 15.7 cm)
Sheet: 8 11/16 × 6 7/16 in. (22.1 × 16.4 cm)
Mount: 11 13/16 × 8 5/16 in. (30 × 21.1 cm)
Credit LineThe Anthony G. Cronin Memorial Collection, gift of Robin Zimmerman Cronin
Object number78.253
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceRobin Zimmerman Cronin; given to 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)

Loaned to Manes Center of the Union of Czechoslovak Creative Artists, Progue, c/o U.S.I.A., Washington, D.C. for "The 150th Anniversary of the Invention of Photography: Prague 1989," from Aug. 1 to Sep. 30, 1989 (LN:89.10).

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