id: 344427 accession number: 2019.100 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.100 updated: 2024-03-26 02:02:06.712000 Bishop Alcock's Chapel from Reho-Choir, Ely Cathedral, 1897. Frederick H. Evans (British, 1853–1943). Platinum print; image and paper: 14.1 x 9.6 cm (5 9/16 x 3 3/4 in.); primary mount: 16.8 x 11.3 cm (6 5/8 x 4 7/16 in.); secondary mount: 17.5 x 12 cm (6 7/8 x 4 3/4 in.); tertiary mount: 35 x 25.4 cm (13 3/4 x 10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Arielle Kozloff Brodkey in memory of Dr. Jerald S. Brodkey 2019.100 title: Bishop Alcock's Chapel from Reho-Choir, Ely Cathedral title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1897 creation date earliest: 1897 creation date latest: 1897 current location: creditline: Gift of Arielle Kozloff Brodkey in memory of Dr. Jerald S. Brodkey copyright: --- culture: England, 19th century technique: platinum print department: Photography collection: PH - British 19th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Frederick H. Evans (British, 1853–1943) - artist Frederick H. Evans British, 1853-1943 Born in Whitechapel, London, Frederick Evans was the preeminent architectural photographer of his day, known particularly for his views of British cathedrals. He was also known for portraiture, with sitters such as George Bernard Shaw and Aubrey Beardsley. Originally a London bookseller, Evans retired in 1898 to devote himself full-time to photography. He was a passionate devotee of straight, or pure, photography. His elegant, unaltered platinum prints relied on form and light to probe the spiritual elements of architectural space and to reveal the character and nuance of the subjects of his portraits. Evans, who exhibited his work widely, extended his aesthetic beliefs to the realm of display; he is credited with transforming British exhibition practice -- the crowded Victorian salon giving way to a venue where prints were shown singly and clearly, out of competition with one another. Alfred Stieglitz was a great admirer of Evans's work, which was published in Camera Work (1903) and shown at the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in New York (1906). A member of the Royal Photographic Society, Evans was named an Honorary Fellow in 1925 and was elected to the Linked Ring in 1900. T.W.F. --- measurements: image and paper: 14.1 x 9.6 cm (5 9/16 x 3 3/4 in.); Primary mount: 16.8 x 11.3 cm (6 5/8 x 4 7/16 in.); Secondary mount: 17.5 x 12 cm (6 7/8 x 4 3/4 in.); Tertiary mount: 35 x 25.4 cm (13 3/4 x 10 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on recto of primary mount: “Bishop Alcock’s Chapel” translation: remark: inscription: Embossed in lower right on recto of primary mount: “FHE” translation: remark: inscription: Ex-Libris plate adhered to verso of tertiary mount: “Ex Libris/Frederick H. Evans/Let those who/hold the torch/hand it on to/others” translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: “ELY CATHEDRAL” translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Halsted Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI date: 1975 footnotes: citations: Arielle Kozloff Brodkey and Dr. Jerald S. Brodkey, Cleveland, OH date: 1975-2014 footnotes: citations: Arielle Kozloff Brodkey, Cleveland, OH date: 2014-2019 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: June 3, 2019 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.100/2019.100_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.100/2019.100_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.100/2019.100_full.tif