Front / Recto
- Title Roofs, Paris
- Negative Date 1913
- Print Date 1913–55
- Medium Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions Image 8 9/16 × 10 7/8" (21.8 × 27.6 cm)Mount 20 1/16 × 15 9/16" (51 × 39.5 cm)
- Place Taken Paris
- Credit Line Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of Thomas Walther
- MoMA Accession Number 1655.2001
- Copyright © George Eastman House
Back / Verso
- Mount Type Mount (original)
- Marks and Inscriptions Signed in pencil on small mount recto, bottom right: Alvin Langdon Coburn [underlined]. Inscribed in pencil on large mount verso, bottom left: Roofs, Paris 1913. Inscribed in pencil on large mount verso, bottom left: 54 [circled and crossed out] and 52 [circled]. Inscribed in pencil on large mount verso, bottom left: 35–41 [numbers circled individually and whole group crossed out].
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Provenance
The artist, London. Ezra Mack, Greenwich, Conn. [1]; purchased by Thomas Walther; given to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001.
[1] MacGill/Walther 2000, p. 8.
Surface
- Surface Sheen Matte
- Techniques Mount Retouching (additive)
- PTM
- Micro-raking
Paper Material
- Format Unknown
- UV Fluorescence Recto negative Verso no data
- Fiber Analysis No fiber data available
- Material Techniques Developing-out paper
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XRF
This work was determined to be a gelatin silver print via X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry.
The following elements have been positively identified in the work, through XRF readings taken from its recto and verso (or from the mount, where the verso was not accessible):
- Recto: S, Cl, Ca, Zn, Rb, Sr, Ag, Ba, Pb
- Mount: Al, Si, P, S, K, Ca, Fe, Zn, Rb, Sr
The graphs below show XRF spectra for three areas on the print: two of the recto—from areas of maximum and minimum image density (Dmax and Dmin)—and one of the verso or mount. The background spectrum represents the contribution of the XRF instrument itself. The first graph shows elements identified through the presence of their characteristic peaks in the lower energy range (0 to 8 keV). The second graph shows elements identified through the presence of their characteristic peaks in the higher energy range (8 to 40 keV).
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