Ely Cathedral: Galilee Porch, Door into Nave
c. 1891
Medium
Lantern slide
Dimensions
8.2 × 8.2 cm (3 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
Classification
photograph
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
215590
Art Historical Context
Step into the hushed grandeur of Ely Cathedral through Frederick H. Evans' captivating lantern slide, *Ely Cathedral: Galileech, Door into Nave (c. 1891). This intimate 8.2 × 8.2 cm glass positive captures the ornate Gothic doorway from the Galilee Porch into the nave, a threshold symbolizing passage from the outer world into sacred space. Evans, a pioneering British photographer renowned for his architectural studies, approached cathedrals with a near-mystical reverence, transforming stone into visions of light and shadow. As a lantern slide, this work was designed for projection in magic la...
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...