Relight
Ansel Adams
Tennis Courts, Yosemite Valley, 1938
- Printed
- c. 1938
- Image
- 7½ × 9½in
- Mount
- 15⅛ × 18½in
- Material
- Gelatin silver print
- Recto
- Signed in pencil, mount recto.
- Verso
- Annotations in pencil in an unknown hand, mount verso.
These images may contain artifacts from the scanning process. The framed view is generated from a photograph of the matted print.
This silver gelatinThe clear binder that suspends the light-sensitive silver, forming the print's image layer. print is in overall excellent condition.
Surface
- Faint silveringA faint metallic sheen, usually in the dark areas, where silver in the emulsion has migrated to the surface over time. throughout, mostly visible in raking lightLight cast from a low, glancing angle across the surface, used to reveal texture and shallow defects invisible head-on..
- Bumped corners — top-right, left and bottom-left — with emulsion lossAn area where the image layer has chipped or flaked away from the paper, leaving a small void. at the top-left and lower-left corners.
- Minute surface impressions throughout the image, some of which break the emulsionThe light-sensitive image layer of the print — the gelatin coating that holds the silver and carries the photograph..
- Minute linear impressions in the center-left of the image and along the bottom-center edge; do not break the emulsionThe light-sensitive image layer of the print — the gelatin coating that holds the silver and carries the photograph.; mostly visible in raking lightLight cast from a low, glancing angle across the surface, used to reveal texture and shallow defects invisible head-on. on close inspection.
- Mounting inconsistencies in the lower-right and upper-left quadrants — small raised bumps visible in raking lightLight cast from a low, glancing angle across the surface, used to reveal texture and shallow defects invisible head-on. on close inspection.
- MatteA non-reflective, low-gloss surface finish. deposit in the upper-right quadrant, mostly visible in raking lightLight cast from a low, glancing angle across the surface, used to reveal texture and shallow defects invisible head-on. on close inspection.
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.