Tree study, c.1855

Details

WILLIAM, 2ND EARL OF CRAVEN
Tree study, c.1855
albumen print
14 5/8 x 11¾in. (37.1 x 29.7cm.)

Provenance

From the artist;
by descent;
Bearne's, Exeter, The Craven Photographic Collection, 6 May 2000, lot 53.

Literature

Chanan, William, Earl of Craven and the Art of Photography, Halsgrove, 2006, pp.142, 156.

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Lot Essay

Chanan comments: 'The final expression of the oak...is an uncropped vertical, the raddled surface of the ancient bark counterbalanced by the impenetrable darkness of the larch and tempered by the softer focus of the middle ground...it is a composition that is the absolute converse of the commonality created by many of Craven's contemporaries...' (William, Earl of Craven, p.142)

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