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Tropical Bed on North Entrance Drive, "The Crest"

PhotographerPhotographed by Harriet V. S. Thorne American, 1843 - 1926

Date1894

MediumPhotography; collodion printing-out paper on cardboard mount

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 7 1/8 x 9 1/8in. (18.1 x 23.2cm)
Sheet (height x width): 7 1/8 x 9 1/8in. (18.1 x 23.2cm)
Mount (height x width): 8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm)

ClassificationsGraphics

Credit LineGift of the Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation

DescriptionTropical plants grow in a garden, with grass in the foreground and trees in the background.

Object number2011.344.991

InscribedOn recto, lower center, in black ink: "Tropical bed on North Entrance drive "The Crest" / Sept 1894"; , in pencil: "1894"
On verso, upper right, in pencil: "T"NotesSubject Note: "The Crest" was the Thorne family's name for their house, Thorncrest, in Millbrook, NY. Designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter for George Hunter Brown, it was built in 1867 and called Millbrook House. The grounds were landscaped by Olmsted & Vaux. It was razed in 1950.

--From a 1979 letter to Rollie McKenna from NYU Assistant Professor of Fne Arts Sarah Landau

Medium Note: The print shows pink and green iridescence when viewed in raking light, which suggests that it is a collodion POP.

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