New York Obelisk, The

Photograph

Purdue University Galleries

Name/Title

New York Obelisk, The

Entry/Object ID

1979.04.48

Description

The New York Obelisk, also known as Cleopatra's Needle, stands tall on a platform in a New York park. The obelisk has carved characters all along the sides with a faint drawing on the pointed pyramid top. The background consists of trees and rocks.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Artotype

Subject

New York Obelisk, Cleopatra's Needle

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

New York, USA

Collection

Rose Collection

Acquisition

Accession

1979.04

Source or Donor

Stephen T. Rose

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Stephen Rose

Made/Created

Artist

Edward Bierstadt

Date made

circa 1881

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

"Edward Bierstadt From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Bierstadt (1824 – 1906) was an American portrait and landscape photographer, and engraver. He was a brother of the painter Albert Bierstadt, and made a number of engravings of his brother's work. He opened his own studio in New York City in 1860. He was hired by William West Durant to take a series of photos for an advertising brochure entitled The Adirondacks, Artotype Views Among the Mountains and Lakes of the North Woods to publicize Blue Mountain Lake and Raquette Lake in the Adirondacks. Bierstadt held an 1876 patent for an improvement to the Stereoscope. This page was last modified on 8 May 2008, at 12:48. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity. "