Willow Road, Lanesville, Mass.
1873/81
Medium
Albumen print, stereo
Dimensions
Each image: 8.9 × 7.4 cm (3 9/16 × 2 15/16 in.); Card: 10 × 17.4 cm (3 15/16 × 6 7/8 in.)
Classification
photography
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
199579
Art Historical Context
**Willow Road, Lanesville, Mass.** (1873/81) captures a serene slice of rural New England life through the lens of photographers J.W. & J.S. Moulton, likely brothers working in partnership during the height of 19th-century American photography. This albumen print stereograph—two nearly identical images mounted side by side on a card—invites viewers to experience depth and dimension when viewed through a stereoscope, transforming a quiet road in the coastal village of Lanesville, Massachusetts, into a vivid, three-dimensional tableau. Albumen prints, coated with egg whites and sensitized with ...