Study of Rocks
about 1845
- Medium
- Daguerreotype
- Dimensions
- 10.4 × 14.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-447709
Jagged rocks jut out toward the viewer, filling the frame with a sense of the powerful forces that formed them. Were they the result of ancient biblical catastrophes such as earthquakes and floods, or of slow evolutionary forces, such as glacial retreating? In the 1800s, two main schools of thought emerged around the question of how these landforms were created. This fractured rock formation may have been photographed for scientific study to provide evidence for the discussion.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- about 1845 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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