A View of Ely Cathedral
Medium
platinum print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 9.6 x 7.3 cm (3 3/4 x 2 7/8 in.) mount: 12 x 9.1 cm (4 3/4 x 3 9/16 in.) mount: 32.5 x 25.2 cm (12 13/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Nancy Jane and Alan Shestack in memory of Frances Smyth-Ravenel
Accession Number
1999.120.1
About the Artist
Frederick H. Evans · 1853–1943
Frederick H. Evans was born in London on 26 June 1853 and lived there his entire life, dying just two days before his ninetieth birthday in 1943. His first career was as a bookseller, operating a shop in Cheapside where he became a well-connected figure in London's intellectual life, counting the playwright George Bernard Shaw and the illustrator Aubrey Beardsley among his friends and customers. H...