Chester Cathedral - From Walls, No. 911 from the series "Chester Illustrated"
Francis Bedford
1850/94
Medium
Albumen print, stereo
Dimensions
Each image: 7.9 × 7.8 cm (3 1/8 × 3 1/8 in.); Card: 8.3 × 17.3 cm (3 5/16 × 6 13/16 in.)
Classification
photography
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
197713
About the Artist
Francis Bedford · 1816–1894
Francis Bedford (1816–1894) was a pioneering British photographer, born in London as the eldest son of the church architect Francis Octavius Bedford.) He trained as an architectural draughtsman and lithographer, exhibiting drawings of architectural subjects from his late teens and listing "Lithographic Artist" as his profession in the 1851 census.) In the early 1850s, Bedford turned to photography...