Details
Artist | Harold Edgerton, American, 1903-1990 |
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Date | 1957 |
Medium | gelatin silver print |
Dimensions | Image: 7 3/4 × 9 5/8 inches (19.7 × 24.4 cm) Sheet: 8 × 10 inches (20.3 × 25.4 cm) |
Credit Line | Gift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation |
Accession Number | 1996.217 |
Department | Prints, Drawings & Photographs |
Not On View |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Marks | Stamp, in black ink, on verso, lower right corner: [stamp is in box shape with two palm trees on left side] © 1957 [57 in pencil] Estate of | [in pencil] 11.918 | HAROLD E. EDGERTON. |
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Inscriptions | Inscribed, in pencil, on verso, upper left corner: 11.918 [boxed] Inscribed, in pencil, on verso, upper right: July 17, 1957. | On M.I.T. Roof | # [number] 6 Dynamite cap. | mfd at 2KV. 1/2" [inch] tube. | Delay 0.5 ms. | Phototube Trigger | Panatomic X Film | 30 ft to camera.. |
Provenance
1996, Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA);
1996-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1996-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)