Cayuga Lake Toward Ithaca
William H. Rau
c. 1895
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image: 43.5 × 52.1 cm (17 1/8 × 20 1/2 in.) mount: 49.7 × 59.1 cm (19 9/16 × 23 1/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
Accession Number
2014.29.1.3
About the Artist
William H. Rau
William Herman Rau (1855–1920) was an American photographer renowned for his luminous large-format landscape photographs of Pennsylvania and the American railroad. Born in Philadelphia, he learned photography as a teenager and by twenty had already participated in a U.S. government expedition to observe the transit of Venus in Tasmania. He later accompanied expeditions to photograph in Siberia and...