A Photographic Tour Among the Abbeys of Yorkshire
Medium
Albumen silver prints
Dimensions
45.3 x 31.8 x 3.4 cm (17 13/16 x 12 1/2 x 1 5/16 in.), closed
Classification
Books
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1952
Accession Number
52.640
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the 1850s, as photography emerged as a revolutionary medium, *A Photographic Tour Among thes of Yorkshire* captured the majestic ruins of medieval monasteries like Fountains Abbey and Rievaulx Abbey. Created collaboratively by Joseph Cundall, a pioneering photographer known for illustrated books; Philip Henry Delamotte expert in architectural views; antiquarian John Richard Walbran and William Jones, this volume reflects the era's Romantic fascination with Gothic decay and Britain's historic landscapes. Presented as a bound book of albumen silver prints—produced by coating paper with egg-wh...