id:			162779
accession number:	2003.299
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.299
updated:		2023-04-22 12:24:36.166000

The Hold-Up, 1880s. American, 19th century. Tintype, whole plate; overall: 21.6 x 16.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.); matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro 2003.299

title:				The Hold-Up
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creation date:			1880s
creation date earliest:		1880
creation date latest:		1889
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creditline:			Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro
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culture:	American, 19th century
technique:	tintype, whole plate
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 19th Century
type:		Photograph
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measurements: Overall: 21.6 x 16.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century
	opening date:   2016-10-22T04:00:00
	<i>Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 22, 2016-February 5, 2017).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro, New York, NY
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 1, 2003
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Since the beginning of photography, objects and people have been purposefully arranged, or staged, for the camera. Popular in the late 1860s and 1870s, tintypes offered low prices and shortened exposure times. Perhaps because tintypists commonly worked at fairs and carnivals, frivolous images, such as this staged hold-up, became common. In these fictional scenes, all the participants were in on the joke. Some such scenes may be novelties, others may be gag portraits commissioned by groups of friends.
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