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Whitby Fishermen
Creator
Frank Meadow SutcliffeBritish Photographer · 1853–1941
All works by this person →"The essence of art is to conceal art," wrote Frank Meadows Sutcliffe. The son of Thomas Sutcliffe, a well-regarded painter who disdained photography as an art form, Sutcliffe had aspired to become a painter but switched to photography upon his father's death. He originally opened a studio in Tunbridge Wells, then returned to his native Whitby in 1876. There he ran a commercial portrait studio, ph
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- negative 1880
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 4330bd3b-0d12-4928-9b3c-aa80946079a7
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Three elderly people sit on a stone bench in front of a stone building. A woman stands to the left, while a man holding a wicker basket over his shoulder sits to the right.
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