Loreley Rock, From Foot of Black Cañon, Colorado River
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1986
Accession Number
1986.1054.13
Art Historical Context
Step into the dramatic vistas of the American West with *Loreley Rock, From Foot Black Cañon, River* (1871), a stunning albumen silver print by H. O'Sullivan.ured during the U.S. Geological Survey's Expedition, this photograph gazes up at the towering, sheer cliffs of Black Cañon along the untamed Colorado River. O'S, a pioneering photographer known for his work with Mathew Brady during the Civil War, ventured into perilous terrain to document the nation's expanding frontiers, blending scientific precision with artistic vision. The albumen silver print, made from a glass negative using the we...
About the Artist
Timothy H. O'Sullivan · 1840–present
Timothy H. O'Sullivan (c. 1840–1882) was a pioneering American photographer whose unflinching lens captured the raw devastation of the Civil War and the sublime vastness of the untamed West. Born in New York City—or possibly Ireland, with his family migrating soon after—his early life remains sparsely documented. As a teenager, he apprenticed under Mathew Brady at the famed daguerreotype studio on...