id:			153696
accession number:	1987.21.a
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.21.a
updated:		2023-08-23 22:59:40.077000

Partridges (recto), c. 1861. Captain N. Baily (British). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 23.9 x 19.3 cm (9 7/16 x 7 5/8 in.); matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1987.21.a

title:				Partridges (recto)
title in original language:	
series:				
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creation date:			c. 1861
creation date earliest:		1855
creation date latest:		1865
current location:		
creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	England, 19th century
technique:	albumen print from wet collodion negative
department:	Photography
collection:	Photography
type:		Photograph
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Captain N. Baily (British)  - artist
Captain N. Baily British, active 1850s-1860s
Little is known of N. Baily, a British amateur photographer who worked during the mid-19th century. He was a member of the Amateur Photographic Association and participated in several of their album exchanges. Baily worked in the wet collodion process, and his known images are still lifes with game, fowl, and fish. T.W.F.
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measurements: Image: 23.9 x 19.3 cm (9 7/16 x 7 5/8 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Written in ink on pasted paper on recto: "Partridges/W. Baily, Esq." (writing on back of pasted label)
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Trophies of the Hunt: Capturing Nature as Art
	opening date:   2004-07-24T00:00:00
	<i>Trophies of the Hunt: Capturing Nature as Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 24-November 3, 2004).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA, February 24 - April 17, 1988: "Year in Review 1987," CMA Bulletin, 75 (February 1988), p. 66, no. 35.  <br>Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 7/24/04 - 11/3/04. "Trophies of the Hunt: Capturing Nature as Art".  No exhibition catalogue.

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PROVENANCE

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wall description:
N. Baily carefully arranged a simple composition of two partridges hanging by a thin rope against a plain wood wall. Like many photographers in the 1850s and '60s, he was interested in displaying the camera’s ability to record in detail the variety of shapes and textures present in the still life. Little is known of Baily, a British amateur photographer. He was a member of the Amateur Photographic Association and participated in several of their album exchanges. Still lifes incorporating game, fowl, and fish were popular among amateur photographers during this period. Many members of the Amateur Photographic Association were gentlemen that formerly belonged to the British armed forces and would have participated in hunting as a pastime.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 90
	url:		

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IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.21.a/1987.21.a_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.21.a/1987.21.a_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.21.a/1987.21.a_full.tif