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Whitby Abbey
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
- f89c08df-5521-4f03-a827-45729dfc770c
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The ruins of Whitby Abbey sit on a small hill surrounded by boulders.
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