About the Artwork
The Road Master
ca. 1890
William Henry Jackson
1843-1942
American
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Albumen print
Image: 6 1/2 × 4 inches (16.5 × 10.2 cm) Mount: 7 1/8 × 9 1/2 inches (18.1 × 24.1 cm)
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Gift of Warren and Margot Coville
1998.105.2A
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Markings
Inscribed, in negative, lower left: 1853. THE ROADMASTER Inscribed, in negative, lower right: WHJ & Co Inscribed, in mount, in black pen and ink, lower center: Colo. central Railway
Provenance
until 1983, Butterfield's (San Francisco, California, USA);1983-1998, Warren and Margot Coville (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA);
1998-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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William Henry Jackson, The Road Master, ca. 1890, albumen print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Warren and Margot Coville, 1998.105.2A.
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