Whitby
c. 1855
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
Image: 28.4 × 39 cm (11 3/16 × 15 3/8 in.); Mount: 43.4 × 59 cm (17 1/8 × 23 1/4 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
100306
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
The scion of a successful manufacturing family, Benjamin Brecknell Turner took up photography as a hobby in 1849. Like other Victorian amateurs, he found himself attracted to the picturesque ruins of the British countryside, such as the ancient Whitby Abbey, which had become a popular tourist destination. Turner made several images there, publishing six in an album entitled Photographic Views from Nature, which featured sixty photographs made between 1852 and 1854. Turner employed the paper nega...