The World's Edge, Remembering Magellan – The Atlantic Ocean, Cabo de Sao Vicente, Portugal

© Thomas Joshua Cooper

The World's Edge, Remembering Magellan – The Atlantic Ocean, Cabo de Sao Vicente, Portugal

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The World's Edge, Remembering Magellan – The Atlantic Ocean, Cabo de Sao Vicente, Portugal,

1994

Thomas Cooper, American, active Scotland, born 1946
1997-583

Information

Title
The World's Edge, Remembering Magellan – The Atlantic Ocean, Cabo de Sao Vicente, Portugal
Dates

1994

Maker
Thomas Cooper
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 58.8 x 82.9 cm. (23 1/8 x 32 5/8 in.) mount: 117 × 118 cm (46 1/16 × 46 7/16 in.) frame: 109 × 129.2 × 2.5 cm (42 15/16 × 50 7/8 × 1 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, bequest of John W. H. Simpson, Class of 1966, in memory of Wellington Hope Simpson, Class of 1931
Object Number
1997-583
Place Depicted

Europe, Portugal, Cabo de São Vicente

Inscription
In graphite on mount, below image lower right: Thomas In ink, verso center: THE WORLD’S EDGE / REMEMBERING MAGELLAN — THE ATLANTIC OCEAN / FIVE CAPES — PORTUGAL / 1994 / CABO DE SÃO VICENTE / (6 A.M. THE NEXT DAY) / THE FURTHEST SOUTHWEST POINT OF CONTINENTAL EUROPE / [PART EIGHT OF AN EIGHT PART WORK] / — THE EDGE OF THE RENAISSANCE WORLD — / © Thomas Joshua Cooper A//P —unique split set— / negative 1994 // print 1994
Culture
American
Type
gelatin silver prints, black-and-white photographs, photographs
Techniques
gelatin silver process, mounting
Subject
oceans, landscapes (representations)

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