India. Ceylon. Colombo. Street Scene, after photo by Dr. Kurt Boeck
Photoglob Co. (Zurich, active c. 1890–1910)
c. 1890–1910
Medium
Photochrom
Dimensions
image: 20.6 × 26.4 cm · paper: 20.6 × 26.4 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer
Accession Number
2019.188
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
To make a photochrom, a photographic negative was transferred onto a lithographic stone, then printers created a minimum of six and up to fifteen different stones, each with a single color of ink, which were printed atop the black-and-white image. The printers creating the colors had never seen the original locale. Photochroms were popular from the 1890s into the 1910s and were most often collected in albums or framed and hung on the wall.