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A Night Scene in the Harbour
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 1863
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- English
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- a3ef52a0-35e2-40ee-bb55-055137b6a0de
Three ships docked in a triangular pattern in a harbor. The sails of all of the ships are down and the ships are in shadow.
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