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Harbour, Swansea, Wales

1855

Alfred Rosling

(British, 1802-c. 1880s)
Culture
England, 19th century
Medium
albumen print from wax paper negative
Measurements
Image: 16.1 x 19.7 cm (6 5/16 x 7 3/4 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1996.353
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Location
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Print

Description

A successful timber merchant in the Hackney area of London and photographer, Alfred Rosling is known for several bodies of photographic work. His earliest photographs were made for a stereoscope establishment, but he later became interested in taking landscape photographs and became very well connected with many British photographic circles. In addition to picturesque views of Surrey, he spent time in South Wales where Harbor, Swansea, Wales was taken. There he met John Dillwyn Llewelyn and likely the Reverend Calvert Richard Jones, Jr., as well as others in the Swansea photographic circle. His son-in-law, Frances Frith, published a number of Rosling's landscape prints.
A horizontally oriented albumen print photograph in muted brown and cream tones depicts a harbor at low tide. A large three-masted ship occupies the left side, its rigging standing against a pale sky. To the right, smaller boats sit in the muddy foreground, one tilted heavily. A low stone wall and buildings stretch across the background horizon, while the upper half of the frame is filled by a vast, empty sky.

Harbour, Swansea, Wales

1855

Alfred Rosling

(British, 1802-c. 1880s)
England, 19th century

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