India. Ceylon. Colombo. Street Scene, after photo by Dr. Kurt Boeck (c. 1890–1910): Art, History and Details

India. Ceylon. Colombo. Street Scene, after photo by Dr. Kurt Boeck (c. 1890–1910) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Photoglob Co. (Zurich, active c. 1890–1910).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

To make a photochrom, a photographic negative was transferred onto a lithographic stone, then printers created a minimum of six and up to fifteen different stones, each with a single color of ink, which were printed atop the black-and-white image. The printers creating the colors had never seen the original locale. Photochroms were popular from the 1890s into the 1910s and were most often collected in albums or framed and hung on the wall.

Object facts

• Title: India. Ceylon. Colombo. Street Scene, after photo by Dr. Kurt Boeck
• Date: c. 1890–1910
• Creator attribution: Photoglob Co. (Zurich, active c. 1890–1910)
• Culture: India, 19th century
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: Photochrom
• Dimensions: Image: 20.6 x 26.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 3/8 in.); Paper: 20.6 x 26.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
• Collection: PH - Misc. 19th Century
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 2019.188

A detail from the museum

This color image was made from a black-and-white negative.

Collection credit

Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer

View the collection record

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