Relight
Ansel Adams
North Dome, Royal Arches, Washington Column, Winter, 1940
- Image
- 4½ × 6½in
- Sheet
- 5 × 7⅛in
- Material
- Gelatin silver print
- Verso
- Stamped: “From Virginia and Ansel Adams, operating Best’s Studio, Inc., Yosemite National Park, California.” Titled twice, in two different hands: “Arch Rocks and Washington Monument” and “North Dome, Royal Arches, Washington Column.”
These images may contain artifacts from the scanning process. The framed view is generated from a photograph of the matted print.
This ultra-glossy — possibly ferrotyped — silver gelatinThe clear binder that suspends the light-sensitive silver, forming the print's image layer. print is in overall good condition.
Surface
- Handling creases throughout; those in the center of the image, the lower-right quadrant and along the bottom-right edge break the emulsionThe light-sensitive image layer of the print — the gelatin coating that holds the silver and carries the photograph..
- Small impressions through the bottom portion of the image, visible only in raking lightLight cast from a low, glancing angle across the surface, used to reveal texture and shallow defects invisible head-on..
- An impressionA shallow indentation pressed into the surface, often from handling or contact, without removing material. in the upper-right portion of the image.
- SilveringA faint metallic sheen, usually in the dark areas, where silver in the emulsion has migrated to the surface over time. in the upper-left quadrant of the image, visible only in raking lightLight cast from a low, glancing angle across the surface, used to reveal texture and shallow defects invisible head-on..
Condition is reported as an opinion, not a statement of fact, and may not note every defect. It describes the artwork as observed at the time of imaging.
Provenance is compiled from documents and owner accounts and may be incomplete.