Staircase of Old Prague

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Artist Jaromír Funke (Czech, 1896–1945)Czech, 1896–1945

CultureCzech

Titles

Staircase of Old Prague

Date1922, printed 1924

Place depictedPrague, Czechoslovakia

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 9 × 8 1/4 in. (22.9 × 21 cm)
Sheet: 9 × 8 1/4 in. (22.9 × 21 cm)
Mount: 17 3/4 × 13 3/8 in. (45.1 × 34 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Max and Isabell Smith Herzstein

Object number84.94

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance[Kicken Berlin, Berlin]; purchased by MFAH, 1984.
Exhibition HistoryToronto Camera Club, 33rd Annual Salon of Pictorial Photography, Canadian National Exhibition, 1924.

"Evocative Presence: Twentieth Century Photographs in the Museum Collection", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston February 27 - May 1, 1988

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso top right in pencil "neg 502[underlined]"
top left in ink "Jar. Funke, Kolin III|19 Czechoslovokia, Europe[underlined] / 6|Staircase of old Prague|bromide| / [an illegible line in pencil]"

bottom right below image on mount in pencil "Funke[underlined] 24"

verso upper left a printed label for the 33rd salon show of the Toronto Camera Club, listing this print as #392 in the catalogue

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