Album containing 58 albumen prints
The Wayfarer

Currently not on view

The Wayfarer,

ca. 1865

Oscar Gustave Rejlander, British, born Sweden, 1813–1875
2002-221.48

Information

Title
The Wayfarer
Dates

ca. 1865

Maker
Oscar Gustave Rejlander
Medium

Albumen print

Dimensions

20.4 × 15.2 cm (8 1/16 × 6 in.)
mount: 30.3 x 24.4 cm (11 15/16 x 9 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Museum purchase, anonymous gift

Object Number
2002-221.48
Place Made

Europe, England, London

Inscription

Inscribed in ink on mount, upper right corner: 48

Inscribed in graphite on mount above image, upper left corner: The Wayfarer

Inscribed in graphite on mount above image, upper right corner: A [copied from original print]

Signed in ink on mount below image, lower right corner: O G Rejlander

Culture
British
Type
albumen prints, black-and-white photographs, photographs
Techniques
albumen process, mounting
Subject
elderly, chairs, canes, men, costume, figures (representations), portraits

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