Artist
Vittorio RonconiItalian, 1916 - 1999
CultureItalian
Titles
- The Rostrum
Date1954
PlaceItaly
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage/Sheet:10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in. (27.8 × 35.4 cm)
Mount: 18 × 22 in. (45.7 × 55.9 cm)
Mount: 18 × 22 in. (45.7 × 55.9 cm)
Credit LineThe Carla and Lorenzo Borlenghi Collection of Italian Photographs, museum purchase funded by the Director's Accessions Endowment as a matching gift to donations of Ermy Borlenghi and Gordon Bonfield and Cathy and Giorgio Borlenghi
Object number2000.16
Not on view
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Exhibition HistoryExhibited in "Postwar Italian Photograph" at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, February 2 to April 28, 2002.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Stamped and inscribed on the verso: "Der Schiffsfchnabel / No. 7 / Title The Tostrum / Il Rostro / Camera: Rolleiflex / lens: Tessar 1: 3, 5 / Lens. stop: F:5,6
Shutter speed: 1/15 / Filter:- / Film: /Ferrania P.28 / Davel: Fino Ornano / Raccoglitore No. 12 / 1954 / Vittorio Ronconi / (Italy) / 49/55"
Ronconi's address is crossed out on the previous stamp with an arrow indicating that the address on this stamp is correct: "Autor: / Ronconi Vittorio / 'E.F.I.A.P.' / 'Hon. ÖGPh, Hon. F.C.K. / via Don Luigi Monza, 26 / 21047 Saronno (Va) Italy"
[this information has been photocopied and is taped in clear cover to back of mount]
Shutter speed: 1/15 / Filter:- / Film: /Ferrania P.28 / Davel: Fino Ornano / Raccoglitore No. 12 / 1954 / Vittorio Ronconi / (Italy) / 49/55"
Ronconi's address is crossed out on the previous stamp with an arrow indicating that the address on this stamp is correct: "Autor: / Ronconi Vittorio / 'E.F.I.A.P.' / 'Hon. ÖGPh, Hon. F.C.K. / via Don Luigi Monza, 26 / 21047 Saronno (Va) Italy"
[this information has been photocopied and is taped in clear cover to back of mount]
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