View of the Acropolis (c. 1880s): Art, History and Details

View of the Acropolis (c. 1880s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Adolphe Braun & Co. (French, 1845–1894).

The work and its context

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

Adolphe marketed his photos of flowers, artworks, landscapes, and monuments from across Europe throughout that continent and in North America. The Acropolis of Athens, the most famous ancient Greek site, must have sold well; Braun offered multiple views of it. The image on a carbon print is formed from pigmented gelatin, which is far more resistant to fading than the silver or metal salts in silver-based prints.

Object facts

• Title: View of the Acropolis
• Date: c. 1880s
• Creator attribution: Adolphe Braun & Co. (French, 1845–1894)
• Culture: France
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: mammoth carbon print
• Dimensions: Image: 38.1 x 47.5 cm (15 x 18 11/16 in.); Paper: 40.1 x 49.3 cm (15 13/16 x 19 7/16 in.)
• Collection: PH - French 19th Century
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 2021.59

A detail from the museum

Carbon prints are among the stable and long-lasting photographic processes.

Collection credit

Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.