Christchurch Gateway, Canterbury

1854, printed 1857

Benjamin Brecknell Turner

Artist, British, 1815 - 1894

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    albumen print

  • Credit Line

    Robert B. Menschel Fund

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 28.7 × 38.9 cm (11 5/16 × 15 5/16 in.)
    mount: 43.7 × 58.8 cm (17 3/16 × 23 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1997.29.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Robert Hershkowitz, Ltd., Sussex, England); purchased with donated funds by NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1984

  • Brettell, Richard R. Paper and Light: The Calotype in France and Great Britain, 1839-1870. Boston, 1984, pl. 82.

Inscriptions

all by later hands, on mount: lower left in graphite: Canterbury; upper left verso in graphite: Exhib / Neg #29 Turner #13 / Ch. Ch. Gate Canterbury / the Street; lower right verso in graphite: 57-PP

Wikidata ID

Q64145150

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