Lot Essay
Turner, an amateur photographer, was and is recognised as one of the great photographers of the 1850s, the decade in photographic history when experiment and experience coalesced to produce many of the finest photographs of the nineteenth century. He was recognised alongside Roger Fenton for his landscape and rural photographs, which he made on This picture was one of two which he exhibited at the Society of Arts in 1852 and according to family tradition it was so admired by Prince Albert that Turner presented him with a copy.