Object number1986.42.95
Boulevard de la Madeleine, 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: 1605 - Boulevard de la Madeleine, Paris, France.; printed right [vertically]: Meadville, Pa. St. Louis, Mo. / Copyright 1895 , by B. L. Lingley; on verso, printed center: This busy thoroughfare is one of the new boulevards con- / structed during the period of the first Empire. It extends / from the church of the Madeleine, from which point this pic- / ture was taken, to the Rue de Luxembourg, a distance of / nearly two miles.; by unidentified hand, lower right corner in pencil: VCAG 86.42.95
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 ProvenanceCollection of Winston and Jeffrey AlderVassar 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 a wide tree-lined boulevard with carriages, cyclists, and people walking.
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Benneville Lloyd Singley
c.1890-1900
Culture: American
Benneville Lloyd Singley
c.1890-1900
Culture: American
