The images in this and the following lot comprise the left and right panels of F. Holland Day's triptych
Armageddon. The central panel of Day's triptych was his iconic
An Ethiopian Chief. Day exhibited
Armageddon, framed to his specifications,
in the 1900 New School of American Photography show in London and in Paris in 1901.
Two prints of this image are in the Alfred Stieglitz Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.