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Auction archive: Lot number 412

Hillers Mammoth Hand-Colored Transparency

Estimate
n. a.
Price realised:
US$3,819
Auction archive: Lot number 412

Hillers Mammoth Hand-Colored Transparency

Estimate
n. a.
Price realised:
US$3,819
Beschreibung:

John K. Hillers (1843-1925), 28 x 32 in. glass positive, housed in a newer frame with paper mat, with a fluorescent illumination. Late 19th century, 1892 or later. An exquisite, hand-colored positive, from a negative taken in the summer of 1892 during Hillers' last trip west for the United States Geological Survey. Fowler (1989, 134-135) has suggested that Hillers was sent West by John Wesley Powell to take photographs for the coming World's Columbian Exposition. This plate, along with other Hillers images in this sale, was found in the home of Alonzo C. Bell, of Westfield, New Jersey, in 1960. Bell had been the Head of the United States Patent Office, and presumably received this and other photographs offered here through some political connection or friendship with Powell or Hillers. The tinting of this image is breathtaking. Cowan's has sold several of the mammoth-sized transparencies in the last 15 years. None of those previously sold were tinted; an exemplary work worthy of a museum collection.

Auction archive: Lot number 412
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jun 2010
Auction house:
Cowan's Auctions, Inc.
Este Ave 6270
Cincinnati OH 45232
United States
info@cowans.com
+1 (0)513 8711670
+1 (0)513 8718670
Beschreibung:

John K. Hillers (1843-1925), 28 x 32 in. glass positive, housed in a newer frame with paper mat, with a fluorescent illumination. Late 19th century, 1892 or later. An exquisite, hand-colored positive, from a negative taken in the summer of 1892 during Hillers' last trip west for the United States Geological Survey. Fowler (1989, 134-135) has suggested that Hillers was sent West by John Wesley Powell to take photographs for the coming World's Columbian Exposition. This plate, along with other Hillers images in this sale, was found in the home of Alonzo C. Bell, of Westfield, New Jersey, in 1960. Bell had been the Head of the United States Patent Office, and presumably received this and other photographs offered here through some political connection or friendship with Powell or Hillers. The tinting of this image is breathtaking. Cowan's has sold several of the mammoth-sized transparencies in the last 15 years. None of those previously sold were tinted; an exemplary work worthy of a museum collection.

Auction archive: Lot number 412
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jun 2010
Auction house:
Cowan's Auctions, Inc.
Este Ave 6270
Cincinnati OH 45232
United States
info@cowans.com
+1 (0)513 8711670
+1 (0)513 8718670
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