An Ethiopian Chief

1897·Platinum print·Image/paper: 21 × 18.6 cm (8 5/16 × 7 3/8 in.); First mount: 21.7 × 19.3 cm (8 9/16 × 7 5/8 in.); Second mount: 22 × 19.7 cm (8 11/16 × 7 13/16 in.); Third mount: 22.8 × 20.5 cm (9 × 8 1/8 in.); Fourth mount: 45.7 × 35.5 cm (18 × 14 in.)

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Year: 1897
Medium: Platinum print
Dimensions: Image/paper: 21 × 18.6 cm (8 5/16 × 7 3/8 in.); First mount: 21.7 × 19.3 cm (8 9/16 × 7 5/8 in.); Second mount: 22 × 19.7 cm (8 11/16 × 7 13/16 in.); Third mount: 22.8 × 20.5 cm (9 × 8 1/8 in.); Fourth mount: 45.7 × 35.5 cm (18 × 14 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: F. Holland Day

Artist

F. Holland Day

Printmaking

F. Holland Day was an American photographer and publisher active from the 1880s through the early 1900s. A pioneer of pictorialist photography, he employed soft focus, hand-applied pigments, and theatrical composition to elevate the medium toward fine art status. Day founded the publishing house Copeland and Day in Boston and championed photography as a gallery-worthy practice during a period when it remained largely dismissed by the art establishment. His archival contributions and advocacy for photography's aesthetic legitimacy shaped the medium's institutional recognition in the twentieth century.

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Artist: F. Holland Day
Year: 1897
Medium: Platinum print
Dimensions: Image/paper: 21 × 18.6 cm (8 5/16 × 7 3/8 in.); First mount: 21.7 × 19.3 cm (8 9/16 × 7 5/8 in.); Second mount: 22 × 19.7 cm (8 11/16 × 7 13/16 in.); Third mount: 22.8 × 20.5 cm (9 × 8 1/8 in.); Fourth mount: 45.7 × 35.5 cm (18 × 14 in.)
Watts ID: WW-1897-104332

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Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Source: aic
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Status: verified

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