Artist
František Drtikol (Czech, 1883–1961)Czech, 1883–1961
CultureCzech
Titles
- Composition
Date1928
PlacePrague, Czech Republic
MediumBromoil print
DimensionsImage: 7 1/4 × 11 3/16 in. (18.4 × 28.4 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/4 × 11 3/16 in. (18.4 × 28.4 cm)
Mount: 12 1/8 × 14 in. (30.8 × 35.5 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/4 × 11 3/16 in. (18.4 × 28.4 cm)
Mount: 12 1/8 × 14 in. (30.8 × 35.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.907
Not on view
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Pink label, verso of mount: "PORTSMOUTH / CAMERA CLUB / This is to certify / that this Picture was / accepted and hung at / the 33rd Annual / exhibition of Pictorial / Photographs, held at / Portsmouth, / May, 1928 / J. Dudley Johnston, Hon. F.R.P.S. / Judge"
Blue label, verso of mount: "IL RAHVUSVAHELINE / FOTOKUNSTI / NAITUS / TALLINNAS 23xi-8xii 1929 / EESTI FOTO-KLUB"
Inscribed in black, verso of mount, presumably in artist's hand: "F. Drtikol- Praha II. / Vodickova 7 / Czechoslovakia / Composition / Carbon"
Inscribed in pencil, verso of mount: "85/06 025"
Embossed, recto of sheet, lower right: "COPYRIGHT / DRTIKOL PRAGUE"
Blue label, verso of mount: "IL RAHVUSVAHELINE / FOTOKUNSTI / NAITUS / TALLINNAS 23xi-8xii 1929 / EESTI FOTO-KLUB"
Inscribed in black, verso of mount, presumably in artist's hand: "F. Drtikol- Praha II. / Vodickova 7 / Czechoslovakia / Composition / Carbon"
Inscribed in pencil, verso of mount: "85/06 025"
Embossed, recto of sheet, lower right: "COPYRIGHT / DRTIKOL PRAGUE"
Signed and dated in pencil, recto of mount, beneath lower right of image: " Drtikol 1928"
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František Drtikol
1912–1913
Gelatin silver print and bromoil print
2004.421.A,.B
