Whitby Harbor
John L. Severance Fund
Catalogue
- Year
- 1850
- Dimensions
- Image: 34.3 x 44 cm (13 1/2 x 17 5/16 in.); Paper: 34.8 x 44.5 cm (13 11/16 x 17 1/2 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 66 cm (22 x 26 in.)
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Artist
- Frank Meadow Sutcliffe
Artist
Photography
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe was a British photographer known for his documentary photographs of fishing communities and maritime life in Whitby, Yorkshire, between the 1880s and early 1900s. Working with large-format cameras and platinum and gelatin silver prints, he captured the daily labor and social fabric of working-class coastal life with both ethnographic precision and compositional sensitivity. His archive of thousands of glass negatives documents a vanishing way of life and remains a primary historical record of late Victorian and Edwardian working communities.
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- Frank Meadow Sutcliffe
- Year
- 1850
- Dimensions
- Image: 34.3 x 44 cm (13 1/2 x 17 5/16 in.); Paper: 34.8 x 44.5 cm (13 11/16 x 17 1/2 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 66 cm (22 x 26 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1850-011216
Source
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Source
- cleveland
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified