The Town on the Hill, New Almaden
Details
- Palette
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- Dimensions
- 39.7 x 52.3 cm (15 5/8 x 20 9/16 in.)
- Department
- Photographs
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1989
Art Genome Taxonomy
7 tags
Subject Matter
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Cityscapes and City Scenes Both · 95%
The title and catalog subject Towns identify the depicted settlement, which is visibly distributed across the hillside among roads and numerous buildings.
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Landscapes Both · 98%
Landscapes is a catalog subject, and the image gives substantial emphasis to the surrounding hills and mountain ridges.
Visual Qualities
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Black and White Visual · 84%
The image is rendered in a restricted monochromatic brown-gray tonal range without distinct color areas; the warm appearance is consistent with the historical photographic print.
Medium and Techniques
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Photography Metadata · 99%
The catalog classifies the work as a photograph and identifies its medium as an albumen silver print from a glass negative.
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Long Distance and Deep Distance Visual · 94%
The elevated viewpoint looks across the settlement toward overlapping mountain ridges that recede into atmospheric haze, creating pronounced spatial depth.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The work is dated 1863.
Geographic Regions
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American Art Metadata · 90%
The catalog identifies Carleton E. Watkins as American.
Source & rights
Carleton E. Watkins. The Town on the Hill, New Almaden. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.