Object number1986.42.90
Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France
Datec.1890-1900
Artist
Benneville Lloyd Singley
(American, 1864-1938)
CultureAmerican
MediumAlbumen print mounted on card
DimensionsImage: 3 1/8 x 6 in. (7.9 x 15.2 cm)
Mount: 3 1/2 x 7 in. (8.9 x 17.8 cm)
Mount: 3 1/2 x 7 in. (8.9 x 17.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Winston and Jeffrey Adler Collection of 19th Century Photography
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c / 20th c
Classification(s)
InscribedOn mount, printed left [vertically]: Keystone View Company, / Manufacturers and Publishers.; printed lower right edge below image: 3102 -- Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France.; printed right [vertically]: Meadville, Pa. St. Louis, Mo. / Copyright 1897 , by B. L. Lingley; on verso, printed center: This already noted Avenue, along with the Champs-Elysees, / is the fashionable afternoon drive for the Parisians. It is 1,400 / yards long, 300 feet wide, and was opened in 1855.; by unidentified hand, lower right corner in pencil: VCAG 86.42.90
BibliographyBrier, Jessica D.. On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College in association with Scala Arts Publishers, Inc., 2022, pl. 3 Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryOn the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, August 20 - December 22, 2022DescriptionTwo sepia-colored images of an aerial view of a large tree-lined boulevard with densely packed multistory buildings on either side.
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Benneville Lloyd Singley
c.1890-1900
Culture: American
Benneville Lloyd Singley
c.1890-1900
Culture: American
