id:			360444
accession number:	2019.187
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.187
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:26.289000

India. Calcutta. Upper Chitpore Road (A), after photo by Dr. Kurt Boeck, c. 1890–1910. Photoglob Co. (Zurich, active c. 1890–1910). Photochrom; paper: 20.6 x 26.2 cm (8 1/8 x 10 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer 2019.187

title:				India. Calcutta. Upper Chitpore Road (A), after photo by Dr. Kurt Boeck
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creation date:			c. 1890–1910
creation date earliest:		1885
creation date latest:		1915
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creditline:			Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer
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culture:	India, 19th century
technique:	Photochrom
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - Misc. 19th Century
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Photoglob Co. (Zurich, active c. 1890–1910)  - artist

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measurements: Paper: 20.6 x 26.2 cm (8 1/8 x 10 5/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Imprinted in gold type on recto: “20005.P.Z-CALCUTTA. UPPER CHITPORE ROAD.”
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Collection of Gunther Heil, Germany
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	Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Beverly Hills, CA
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	the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: September 9, 2019
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fun fact:
Chitpore (now spelled Chitpur) Road is one of the oldest roads in Kolkata (previously Calcutta).

digital description:
This busy street corner gives us a glimpse into everyday life in turn-of-the-twentieth-century India. Unlike most of the mid-19th century genre photographs of colonial India, which were posed or staged, here people go about their business, unaware that they are being photographed. The color scene was made using a black-and-white negative by Dr. Kurt Boeck, a German actor and mountain climber who became a travel writer and lecturer specializing in Asia.

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IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.187/2019.187_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.187/2019.187_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.187/2019.187_full.tif