[View Through Rocks' Of Tower On Hill]
Francis Bedford
1870s
![[View Through Rocks' Of Tower On Hill] by Francis Bedford](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/view-through-rocks-of-tower-on-hill-259898.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1971
Accession Number
1971.590.3
Tags
Landscapes
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...