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What are hopes but gleams of brightness...
Creator
Col. Henry Stuart WortleyBritish Photographer · 1832–1890
All works by this person →Son of a baron, Colonel Henry Stuart Wortley spent part of his youth as a page of honor to Queen Victoria. He entered military service at age sixteen, served in the Crimean War, and took up photography in 1853 while a Cape Mounted Rifleman. He did not exhibit his photographs, however, until after he retired as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1862. Wortley was a member of the Photographic Society of London
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- about 1870
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 041ea35a-3d1a-4b0a-89b1-ee5d9e520528
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Waves crash against rocks on a rocky shoreline under a dramatic sky.
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