Elgin Marbles

Elgin Marbles

Photograph

Marcia Resnick

Maker
American, 1950–2025

Elgin Marbles

From Resnick's Believe It or Not


November 8, 1979
Gelatin silver print inscribed with graphite
Image: 5 9/16 × 8 9/16 in. (14.1 × 21.7 cm)
Paper: 13 7/8 × 10 7/8 in. (35.3 × 27.6 cm)
Matted: 20 × 16 × 1/8 in. (50.8 × 40.6 × 0.3 cm)
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2020
2020.0045.0006
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on print below image: THOMAS BRUCE, THE SEVENTH EARL OF ELGIN... [extended caption]
Inscribed in pencil on verso, B: from the Soho Weekly News, NYC \ 1979–1981 \ Marcia Resnick [signed] \ MRBN09.1 7477

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