A Very Pretty House
1853–56
Medium
Salted paper print
Dimensions
Image: 17.8 × 22.1 cm (7 in. × 8 11/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.382 (19)
Tags
Art Historical Context
James Knight's *A Very Pretty House*1853–56) captures the charm of mid-19th-century British architecture through the lens of early photography. salted paper print, measuring 17.8 × 22.1 cm, depicts a quaint house that embodies the domestic idyll of the Victorian era, evoking a sense of serene beauty amid everyday surroundings. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Gilman Collection, it exemplifies the growing fascination with vernacular architecture during photography's formative years. Salted paper prints, a pioneering technique refined from William Henry Fox Talbot's calotype process, ...