The Castle at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Date1953

Artist Rosalie Thorne McKenna (American, 1918-2003)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 8 x 5 7/8 in. (20.3 x 14.9 cm)
Sheet: 8 7/8 x 6 11/16 in. (22.5 x 17 cm)
Matted: 22 x 16 in. (55.9 x 40.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of the artist

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

InscribedOn verso, by artist, upper center in ink: The Castle at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire / Wales 1953; by unidentified hand, lower right corner in pencil: 87.53.21

MarkingsOn printed label, on verso center: © Rollie McKenna / 1 Hancox Street / Stonington, CT 06378 / (203) 535-0110/2126

BibliographyBill Read, The Days of Dylan Thomas A Pictorial Biography (McGraw-Hill, 1964), 83. Rollie McKenna, Portrait of Dylan, A Photographer's Memoir (Stemmer House, 1982), 33. American Society of Magazine Photographers’ Picture Annual (1957), page unknown. ProvenanceGift of the artist
DescriptionMounted on cardboard. View of castle ruins overgrown with vines with tree on right and view of back of sculpted bust in disrepair in foreground

Terms

Carmarthenshire

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