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Description: platinum print, on a triple mount, signed calligraphically by the photographer in pencil on the third mount, annotated No. 7,' 201,' and with other notations in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse, in the original exhibition frame, a printed 201' exhibition label affixed to the glass, titled and inscribed Reserved' in an unidentified hand in pencil and with a framer's label on the reverse, circa 1910 Exhibited: Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography, 3 November-1 December 1910 Literature: Academy Notes, Volume VI, January 1911-December 1911, p. 12 (this print) Photograms of the Year, 1912, pl. LXIX This photograph was one of 25 shown by de Meyer in the landmark International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography at the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, 1910. The print is housed in its original frame with the original exhibition number affixed to its glass. A letterpress framer's label, from Chapman Bros., 251 King Road, Chelsea, London,' is on the reverse. Beyond the 12 prints by different photographers purchased by the Albright Art Gallery in 1910, very few prints from the exhibition have been located. By any reckoning--in terms of de Meyer's extant oeuvre, or the scarcity of prints from the 1910 exhibition--the present print is a remarkably rare artifact. The 1910 Buffalo exhibition was, as critic Sadakichi Hartmann wrote, the most complete and comprehensive survey of pictorialism ever arranged in this country' (Wilson's Photographic Magazine, January 1911, p. 2-4). Neither its scope nor depth have been matched by any subsequent exhibition. Organized by Alfred Stieglitz, the exhibition featured nearly 600 photographs. During its 29-day showing, it drew over fifteen thousand visitors, breaking all previous attendance records. In his review in Harper's Weekly, Alvin Langdon Coburn praised the high quality of the prints in the exhibition: If a