McDermott & McGough
A Glass Full of Water Turned Over and Closed by a Sheet of Paper which Maintains the Pressure of the Air, 1884

A Glass Full of Water Turned Over and Closed by a Sheet of Paper which Maintains the Pressure of the Air, 1884
A Glass Full of Water Turned Over and Closed by a Sheet of Paper which Maintains the Pressure of the Air, 1884
A Glass Full of Water Turned Over and Closed by a Sheet of Paper which Maintains the Pressure of the Air, 1884
ArtistAmerican, active since c. 1984
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • A Glass Full of Water Turned Over and Closed by a Sheet of Paper which Maintains the Pressure of the Air, 1884
Date1990
MediumPlatinum/palladium print
DimensionsImage: 14 × 11 in. (35.5 × 28 cm)
Frame: 26 3/4 × 23 5/8 in. (68 × 60 cm)
Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.3111
Not on view

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Department
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Object Type
ProvenanceArtist.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Fay Gold Gallery 7/31/1987.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso of sheet, lower edge: "A glass full of water turned over and closed by a sheet of paper / which maintains the pressure of the air 30th May 1884. 3 of 3"

"RMG #MM9006.009-0 / neg #4402A"

Inscribed in black on back label (now in Registrar's object file): "[signature] MESSERS McDERMOTT AND McGOUGH / THE TEMPLE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ART / title A Glass full of water turned over and closed by / a sheet of paper which maintains the pressure of the air. / the thirtieth instance of May 1884 / No. three in an Edition of three / No. 135 Broadway, Williamsburg / City of Brooklyn"
Signed in black, on back label previously affixed to back of frame (now in Registrar's object file): "Messrs McDermott & McGough"

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