Károly Escher
Sleeper Under the Bridge

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Artist Károly EscherHungarian, 1890–1966

CultureHungarian

Titles

Sleeper Under the Bridge

Date1933

Place depictedBudapest, Hungary

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage/Sheet: 9 3/8 × 11 7/8 in. (23.9 × 30.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2002.944

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryExhibited, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Lower Brown Corridor, "Hungarian Avant-Garde Photographers from the Manfred Heiting Collection", March 1, 2004-May 23, 2004
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed in pencil, verso of sheet, circled in pencil, upper left: "35"
Inscribed in blue, verso of sheet, upper center: "226"
Stamped in purple, verso of sheet, upper center: "MAGYAR HIRER / HUNGARIAN NEWS"

Inscribed in pencil, verso of sheet, center: "12/VII / 100%"

Stamped in black, verso of sheet, lower center: "[illegible to cataloguer] / FOTO / ESCHER / BUDAPEST"

Inscribed in blue, verso of sheet, lower center: "teid alote alvoi"
Inscribed in blue, verso of sheet, lower left: "68. 1327."

The photograph is not signed.

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