Marble Cañon, one of the gorges of the Colorado here, 1.200 feet deep. The steep cliff is gray limestone and the slope below a brilliant red sandstone, No. 13 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"
Catalogue
- Year
- 1872
- Medium
- Albumen print, stereo
- Dimensions
- Each image: 9.3 × 7.4 cm (3 11/16 × 2 15/16 in.); Card: 10 × 17.7 cm (3 15/16 × 7 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- William H. Bell
Artist
Printmaking
William H. Bell was an American photographer active in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, known for large-format landscape and architectural documentation across the western United States. Working primarily with albumen and gelatin dry plate processes, he produced systematic surveys of terrain, geological formations, and constructed environments. His work forms part of the archival record of American western expansion and industrial development during the period 1860, 1900.
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Canon of Kanab Wash, Looking South, Colorado River
1872 · Albumen print from glass plate negative
Grand Cañon, Colorado River, Mouth of Kanab Wash, Looking West
1872 · albumen print from tannin dry plate negative
Grand Cañon, Colorado River, Near Paria Creek, Looking West
1872 · Albumen print
View in the Grand Cañon of the Colorado River, No. 12 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"
1872 · Albumen print, stereo
The "Vermillion Cliff," a typical plateau edge, as seen from Jacobs Pool, Arizona. From its top a plateau stretches to the right, and from its base another to the left. Their difference of level is 1.500 feet, and the step is too steep for scaling, No. 15 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"
1872 · Albumen print, stereo
Looking South into the Grand Canyon, Colorado River, Sheavwitz
1872 · albumen print from wet collodion negative
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- William H. Bell
- Year
- 1872
- Medium
- Albumen print, stereo
- Dimensions
- Each image: 9.3 × 7.4 cm (3 11/16 × 2 15/16 in.); Card: 10 × 17.7 cm (3 15/16 × 7 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1872-093177
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified