A Strong Breeze, Flying Clouds

c. 1863

Colonel Stuart Wortley

Associated Names
Colonel Henry Stuart Wortley

Artist, British, 1832 - 1890

This photograph features a view of dark water under a cloudy sky, with a horizon in the bottom third dividing the sea and the sky. On the horizon, the shapes of distant buildings or rocks are visible, including one tall shape that could be a lighthouse. The sea is almost completely black, except for a few small white ripples in the bottom of the photograph. The sky is light gray and filled with puffy white clouds.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    albumen silver print

  • Credit Line

    Robert B. Menschel Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.2 x 26 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
    mount: 49.5 x 61.1 cm (19 1/2 x 24 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2007.10.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Charles Isaacs Photographs, New York); NGA purchase, 2007.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2010

  • The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848 - 1875, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2010 - 2011, no. 48.

2016

  • Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2016 - 2017, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

printed on mount below photograph: A STRONG BREEZE FLYING CLOUDS. / PHOTOGRAPHS FROM NATURE BY COLONEL STUART WORTLEY.; printed lower center: PUBLISHED BY JAMES SHELDON. WHOLESALE PUBLISHER, 31, ELY PLACE, LONDON, E.C.; by Charles Isaacs, lower right in graphite: Q1444; on verso, upper right in graphite: 10/6

Wikidata ID

Q64145910

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