The Sky-Line

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Artist/Maker	Duckworth & Co. (photographers) Coburn, Alvin Langdon (photographer)
Place of origin	New York (photographed)

A tipped-in sepia-coloured photomechanical print of a view of a shoreline including a boat and many plumes of smoke. The print is affixed to a grey/green page bound into an album along with nineteen other photogravures and letterpress text.

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Categories	The Royal Photographic Society Photographs Tourism & Travel Boats and Ships
Object type	Photograph
Title	The Sky-Line (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	A bound album of twenty photogravure prints with letterpress text and gold embossed cover. Paper Board Photography Photogravure Process
Brief description	Photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 'The Sky-Line', photogravure, from 'New York', a bound album of twenty photogravures with letter-press forward by H.G. Wells and list of prints and dust-cover, 1910
Physical description	A tipped-in sepia-coloured photomechanical print of a view of a shoreline including a boat and many plumes of smoke. The print is affixed to a grey/green page bound into an album along with nineteen other photogravures and letterpress text.
Dimensions	Album height: 41.3cm Album width: 32.2cm
Marks and inscriptions	Royal Photographic Society inventory label; RPS ink stamps (printed label; ink stamps, inside album cover)
Credit line	The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund
Subjects depicted	Shorelines Boats
Place depicted	New York
Other numbers	8135 - Royal Photographic Society number C37 - RPS identifier - box number 2003-5001-2-26027 - Science Museum Group accession number
Collection	Department of Photography
Accession number	RPS.4266:19-2023

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Record created	November 3, 2023
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1768658/the-sky-line-photograph-coburn-alvin-langdon/

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