id: 156037 accession number: 1991.290 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.290 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:12.138000 Woodcote, c. 1853. Robert Henry Cheney (British, 1800–1866). Albumen print from calotype; image: 21.2 x 16.6 cm (8 3/8 x 6 9/16 in.); matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Russ Anderson 1991.290 title: Woodcote title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1853 creation date earliest: 1845 creation date latest: 1855 current location: creditline: Gift of Russ Anderson copyright: --- culture: England, 19th century technique: albumen print from calotype department: Photography collection: Photography type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Robert Henry Cheney (British, 1800–1866) - artist Robert Henry Cheney British, c. 1800-1866 Robert Henry Cheney typified the talented English amateur of his day. Raised in comfort in Shropshire, he spent his twenties in Italy with his mother and brother, Edward, a graduate of Sandhurst and veteran of military duty in India. Both brothers were devotees of Roman society, published Gothic fiction that attracted little attention, and took an interest in art. In Venice Edward assembled an excellent collection of European works; Robert took up sketching and watercolor, possibly studying with British watercolorist Peter Dewindt. Robert later returned to the family seat of Badger Hall in Shropshire, where in the 1840s he pursued landscape design, assumed local civic duties, and continued to sketch. He took up photography about 1850, recording for his pleasure and that of his circle not only Badger Hall and its environs, but also other architectural and landscape subjects throughout Britain. He used the waxed paper process, producing salt prints; some albumen prints were made later in the decade by his nephew, Colonel Alfred Capel-Cure. T.W.F. --- measurements: Image: 21.2 x 16.6 cm (8 3/8 x 6 9/16 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in brown ink on recto of mount: "Woodcote" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 123 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.290/1991.290_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.290/1991.290_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.290/1991.290_full.tif