id:			156627
accession number:	1992.326
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.326
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:15.115000

Monuments and Ruins of Erin: The Valley of Glendalough, County Wicklow, Ireland, c. 1864. William Russell Sedgfield (British, 1826–1902), W. Russell Sedgfield and Thomas Ogle, privately compiled. Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 24 x 29.3 cm (9 7/16 x 11 9/16 in.); matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Russ Anderson 1992.326

title:				The Valley of Glendalough, County Wicklow, Ireland
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series:				Monuments and Ruins of Erin
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creation date:			c. 1864
creation date earliest:		1859
creation date latest:		1869
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creditline:			Gift of Russ Anderson
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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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CREATORS

* William Russell Sedgfield (British, 1826–1902)  - artist
William Russell Sedgfield British, 1826-1902

William Sedgfield, one of the earliest applicants for a license to use William Henry Fox Talbot's calotype process, is better known for his later albumen work of British architecture, topography, and genre subjects, done in print, stereograph, and carte-de-visite formats. He was active from 184-72. Two known projects are Photographic Delineations of the Scenery, Architecture and Antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland and his contributions, along with other British photographers, to William and Mary Howitt's Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain. T.W.F.
* W. Russell Sedgfield and Thomas Ogle, privately compiled  - published by

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measurements: Image: 24 x 29.3 cm (9 7/16 x 11 9/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on recto of mount: "SEDGFIELD"; "The Valley of Glendalough Co Wicklow"; in black ink on verso of mount: "Russell Sedgfield / SEDGFIELD + OGILVY"; in pencil: "W. Russell Sedgfield / or / THOMAS OGLE / IRELAND CA 1862-64"; "382"
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Russ Anderson, Perspective Fine Art, Soquel, CA
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: February 17, 1993
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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. 316
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IMAGES

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