Spring at Prospect Park (Brooklyn, New York)

PhotographerUnknown Brooklyn

CountryUnited States

MediumGelatin Silver with hand-coloring

Year1910-1920

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Color photograph, Landscape, Paths, Trees

Dimensions

Image Dimensions: 11.8 x 9.0 cm
Support Dimensions: 13.2 x 9.9 cm


Associated Blog Posts:

No Junk in Trunk


A landscape study within Brooklyn’s Prospect Park shows a pathway that begins in shade at lower part of frame and leads the viewer towards sunlight, with trees, including either flowering cherry or magnolias in distance.

 

print notes recto: grasses drawn in on both sides of path; slight silvering to image margins; loss due to a mouse at lower left corner outside image

 

print notes verso: in graphite in unknown hand: Spring at Prospect Park (faint)

 

This photograph is the work of an Unknown Brooklyn amateur photographer whose surviving work was discovered in a trunk in the American South. Background can be found at link on Associated Blog Posts with this page.

Spring at Prospect Park (Brooklyn, New York)