Picnic Grounds
William H. Rau
c. 1895
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image: 43.8 × 52.1 cm (17 1/4 × 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
2014.29.1.7
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
William H. Rau · 1855–1920
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...