The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

India. Ceylon. Colombo. Street Scene, after photo by Dr. Kurt Boeck

c. 1890–1910

Photoglob Co.

(Zurich, active c. 1890–1910)
India, 19th century
Photochrom
Image: 20.6 x 26.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 3/8 in.); Paper: 20.6 x 26.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer 2019.188
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

This color image was made from a black-and-white negative.

Description

To make a photochrom, a photographic negative was transferred onto a lithographic stone, then printers created a minimum of six and up to fifteen different stones, each with a single color of ink, which were printed atop the black-and-white image. The printers creating the colors had never seen the original locale. Photochroms were popular from the 1890s into the 1910s and were most often collected in albums or framed and hung on the wall.
  • Collection of Gunter Heil, Germany
    Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Beverly Hills, CA
    September 9, 2019
    the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2019.188