Costly monuments of very elegant proportions

Costly monuments of very elegant proportions

Photograph

Alvin Langdon Coburn

Maker
British, b. United States, 1882–1966

Costly monuments of very elegant proportions

Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh, Picturesque Notes: with 23 plates by Alvin Langdon Coburn. London: Rupert-Hart, Davis, 1954, pl. 15


ca. 1905
Gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1950
28.5 x 20.3 cm.
Bequest of the photographer
1967.0143.0036
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on mount recto, BR: 15 [circled]
Inscribed in pencil on mount verso, BR: 15 17 [17 strikethrough] A costly monument of very \ elegant proportions.

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