Sunshine and Shadow
Catalogue
- Year
- 1889
- Medium
- photogravure
- Dimensions
- image: 17 x 13 cm (6 11/16 x 5 1/8 in.) sheet: 20 x 15.5 cm (7 7/8 x 6 1/8 in.) mount: 38.4 x 27.8 cm (15 1/8 x 10 15/16 in.)
- Collection
- National Gallery 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
- 1889
- Medium
- photogravure
- Dimensions
- image: 17 x 13 cm (6 11/16 x 5 1/8 in.) sheet: 20 x 15.5 cm (7 7/8 x 6 1/8 in.) mount: 38.4 x 27.8 cm (15 1/8 x 10 15/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1889-285133
Source
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Source
- nga
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified