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The Great Eastern ("Leviathan")

(English, 1831–1858)
November 12, 1857
Medium/TechniquePhotograph, albumen print from wet collodion negative
DimensionsSheet: 27.6 x 36.2 cm (10 7/8 x 14 1/4 in.)
Credit LineErnest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund
Accession number2007.329
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPhotographs
InscriptionsDated in negative, l.l.: Nov 12 57
ProvenanceAcquired by Charles Isaacs from H. P. Kraus, NY; sold to MFA April 25, 2007
Still Life of Sèvres Porcelain
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Sèvres Vase
Louis-Rémy Robert
1855
Charles Hippolyte Aubry
about 1864
Dead Deer on Horse Cart
Horatio Ross
1860s
Man in Arab Costume with Sword
Franc (François?) Chauvassaignes
about 1855–57
Trees at Mt. Etna after Eruption
Paul-Marcellin Berthier
1865
Man with Harrow and Team of Horses
Unidentified artist, French, 19th century
about 1880
Portrait of a Young Woman
Oscar Gustave Rejlander
probably 1866