Sunset at Sea, 1860s

Not on View

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 28.6 × 34.8 cm (11 1/4 × 13 11/16 in.)
mount: 48.4 × 54.2 cm (19 1/16 × 21 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Diana and Mallory Walker

Accession Number

2018.7.7

Artists / Makers

Colonel Henry Stuart Wortley (artist) British, 1832 - 1890

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

on mount below image, center, typed in black ink: Sunset at Sea. Photographed from nature by Colonel Stuart Wortley / Published by James Sheloon, Wholesale Publisher, 51, Ely Place, London, E.C.

Provenance

Serge Kakou, London; (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), 2013; NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Isaacs, Charles, Mr.

Exhibition History

2019: The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.