Harbour, Swansea, Wales (1855): Art, History and Details

Harbour, Swansea, Wales (1855) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Alfred Rosling (British, 1802-c. 1880s).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

A successful timber merchant in the Hackney area of London and photographer, Alfred Rosling is known for several bodies of photographic work. His earliest photographs were made for a stereoscope establishment, but he later became interested in taking landscape photographs and became very well connected with many British photographic circles. In addition to picturesque views of Surrey, he spent time in South Wales where Harbor, Swansea, Wales was taken. There he met John Dillwyn Llewelyn and likely the Reverend Calvert Richard Jones, Jr., as well as others in the Swansea photographic circle. His son-in-law, Frances Frith, published a number of Rosling's landscape prints.

Object facts

• Title: Harbour, Swansea, Wales
• Date: 1855
• Creator attribution: Alfred Rosling (British, 1802-c. 1880s)
• Culture: England, 19th century
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: albumen print from wax paper negative
• Dimensions: Image: 16.1 x 19.7 cm (6 5/16 x 7 3/4 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
• Collection: Photography
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 1996.353

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

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