Artist
Ruggiero RossiItalian
CultureItalian
Titles
- Elderly Man in a Carriage
Date1950s
PlaceMilan, Italy
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage/sheet: 12 × 15 3/4 in. (30.5 × 40.0 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by James and Franci Neely Crane in honor of Carl Palazzolo
Object number2000.23
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 in purple, verso, upper left: "Ruggero Rossi / Milano-Via Zuretti, 81"
Stamped in purple, verso, upper left: "C.F.M."
Stamped in purple, verso, upper left: "Ruggero Rossi / Via Romolo Bitti 28 / 20125 Milano / Tel 0264 71 719"
Stamped verso: "[illegible] fotografica / [illegible]ese / [illegible] a..ga d'oro" / Opera Ammessa"
Label on verso: "2 Concorso Fotografico / Nazionale / Parma 9-18 Settembre 1960 / Opera Premiata / 3 Premio / Circolo Artistico Parmense / Maria Luigia [and an illustration of a seated regally robed woman]"
Label on verso: "CTG / L'Antenna / Strambino (Torino) / Opera Esposta / alla Ill Mostra Nazionale di Fotografia / 19-22 Marzo 1961 / Gluria: Bosio: Martinenco-Ottone"
Label on verso: [over illustration of man under the cape of a camera on a tripod]: "CTG / Mostra Internazionale Fotografica / Alba Italia 8/15 Ottobre 1961 / Opera ammessa"
Label on verso: [diamond shaped with crest at top depicting a fortress]: "1 Mostra Nazionale di Fotografia Artistica / «Coppa Città di Villafranca di Verona» / Opera Ammessa / Giugno 1961"
verso top center in green ink " ' VETTURA No 64 ' "
top right corner in pencil and in ink " OT-30 / 26[illegible][underlined] / 5/60[underlined] / L[circled] "
Stamped in purple, verso, upper left: "C.F.M."
Stamped in purple, verso, upper left: "Ruggero Rossi / Via Romolo Bitti 28 / 20125 Milano / Tel 0264 71 719"
Stamped verso: "[illegible] fotografica / [illegible]ese / [illegible] a..ga d'oro" / Opera Ammessa"
Label on verso: "2 Concorso Fotografico / Nazionale / Parma 9-18 Settembre 1960 / Opera Premiata / 3 Premio / Circolo Artistico Parmense / Maria Luigia [and an illustration of a seated regally robed woman]"
Label on verso: "CTG / L'Antenna / Strambino (Torino) / Opera Esposta / alla Ill Mostra Nazionale di Fotografia / 19-22 Marzo 1961 / Gluria: Bosio: Martinenco-Ottone"
Label on verso: [over illustration of man under the cape of a camera on a tripod]: "CTG / Mostra Internazionale Fotografica / Alba Italia 8/15 Ottobre 1961 / Opera ammessa"
Label on verso: [diamond shaped with crest at top depicting a fortress]: "1 Mostra Nazionale di Fotografia Artistica / «Coppa Città di Villafranca di Verona» / Opera Ammessa / Giugno 1961"
verso top center in green ink " ' VETTURA No 64 ' "
top right corner in pencil and in ink " OT-30 / 26[illegible][underlined] / 5/60[underlined] / L[circled] "
The photograph is signed in pencil, verso, center
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