Iosif-Rafail Diament
Petukh. Novoy Borkovskoy porody, N.I. (nauchno-issledovatel'skaya) stantsiya ptitsevodstva, St. Borki, Khar'kovsk. Oblast, USSR (Ukrainskaya sovetskaya sotsialisticheskaya Respublika) [within the SSSR - Souz sovetskikh socialisticheskikh respublik]
![Petukh. Novoy Borkovskoy porody, N.I. (nauchno-issledovatel'skaya) stantsiya ptitsevodstva, St. Borki, Khar'kovsk. Oblast, USSR (Ukrainskaya sovetskaya sotsialisticheskaya Respublika) [within the SSSR - Souz sovetskikh socialisticheskikh respublik]](/internal/media/dispatcher/296698/preview)
Artist
Iosif-Rafail Diament(Russian, 1907–1987)Russian, 1907–1987
CultureRussian
Titles
- Petukh. Novoy Borkovskoy porody, N.I. (nauchno-issledovatel'skaya) stantsiya ptitsevodstva, St. Borki, Khar'kovsk. Oblast, USSR (Ukrainskaya sovetskaya sotsialisticheskaya Respublika) [within the SSSR - Souz sovetskikh socialisticheskikh respublik]
- Rooster. New Borkovskaya Breed. N.I. Poultry Research Station, St. Borki [now Birki], Kharkov [now Kharkiv] Region, Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic), USSR (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics)
Date1936
PlaceRussia
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 15 9/16 × 11 5/16 in. (39.5 × 28.8 cm)
Sheet: 15 9/16 × 11 5/16 in. (39.5 × 28.8 cm)
Sheet: 15 9/16 × 11 5/16 in. (39.5 × 28.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by D. Cal McNair in honor of Robert C. McNair at "One Great Night in November, 2003", The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.2527
Not on view
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
The proud, photogenic star of this picture belonged to a new breed of chicken developed at the Poultry Research Station in St. Borki (present-day Birki, Ukraine). The research center—which continues to operate to this day—is the only such facility in the country dedicated exclusively to poultry research and tracks the status and performance of poultry breeds throughout the region. Iosif-Rafail Diament likely intended the picture to promote, rather than simply document, the new breed of chicken.
Provenance[Manfred Heiting, Malibu, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in purple, verso of sheet, lower part of sheet: "Netyx. Hoboris Topkobekon nopodn / H.U. citannue uinsebodcrba / cr. bagsku xapokoben. odd. Yelp. / P Drauestris / 1936" [handwriting is largely illegible to cataloguer and this is the closest I can make out to what is written]
There is an inscription, possibly a signature in Russian, on the verso of the sheet.
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