Currently not on view
Proffered Help,
ca. 1899
Thomas M. Edmiston, American, 1859–1934
x1983-1485
Information
Title
Proffered Help
Dates
ca. 1899
Maker
Medium
Platinum print
Dimensions
sheet: 17.8 × 12.7 cm (7 × 5 in.)
mount: 31.8 × 23.5 cm (12 1/2 × 9 1/4 in.)
frame: 43.8 × 36.2 × 3.2 cm (17 1/4 × 14 1/4 × 1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
The Clarence H. White Collection, assembled and organized by Professor Clarence H. White Jr., and given in memory of Lewis F. White, Dr. Maynard P. White Sr., and Clarence H. White Jr., the sons of Clarence H. White Sr. and Jane Felix White
Object Number
x1983-1485
Techniques
Created by Thomas M. Edmiston, the artist. Acquired by Clarence H. White Sr., between ca. 1899 and July 7, 1925; by descent to Clarence H. White Jr., on or after July 8, 1925 [1]; by descent to Clarence H. White Jr.’s widow, Ruth Royer White, 1978 [2]; bequest, to Princeton University Art Museum, 1983 [3].
Notes:
[1]. Possibly on the occasion of Clarence H. White Sr.’s death, as part of the Clarence H. White Collection.
[2]. On the occasion of Clarence H. White Jr.’s death.
[3]. Carried out by Ruth Royer White on behalf of Clarence H. White Jr.
- "Portfolio of Photography by Other Artists in the Clarence H. White Collection," in "The Art of Pictoral Photography 1890-1925," special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 51, no. 2 (1992): 39–78., p. 75 (illus.)
- Anne McCauley, Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography 1895–1925 (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2017), p. 258
