Glen Kenilworth
Francis Bedford
c. 1868
Medium
carbon print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 23.2 × 28.2 cm (9 1/8 × 11 1/8 in.) mount: 44.6 × 56.1 cm (17 9/16 × 22 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Ph.D
Accession Number
2018.23.4
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...