[Man in Bottle]
ca. 1888
![[Man in Bottle] by John C. Higgins](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/man-in-bottle-296297.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 13.5 x 10 cm (5 5/16 x 3 15/16 in.) Mount: 16.4 x 10.6 cm (6 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.) Frame: 35.6 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Susan and Thomas Dunn Gift, 2011
Accession Number
2011.199
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
John C. Higgins · 1880–1899
John C. Higgins was an American artist and photographer born in 1880 and who died in 1899. Active primarily during the 1880s and 1890s, he worked in a period when photography was rapidly evolving as both a documentary tool and an artistic medium. His brief life coincided with the rise of pictorial photography in the United States, though details of his personal background and training remain large...