Water Rats
Purchased with funds provided by Lucia Woods
Catalogue
- Year
- 1986
- Dimensions
- Image: 12.6 × 17.7 cm (5 × 7 in.); Paper: 28 × 37.9 cm (11 1/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- 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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Record
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- Frank Meadow Sutcliffe
- Year
- 1986
- Dimensions
- Image: 12.6 × 17.7 cm (5 × 7 in.); Paper: 28 × 37.9 cm (11 1/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1986-011212
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified