Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, England (c. 1870s): Art, History and Details
Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, England at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1870s, mammoth untrimmed carbon print. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, England (c. 1870s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Adolphe Braun (French, 1812–1877).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Kenilworth Castle has been a tourist attraction since the late 1700s. It gained an even larger audience when it became the subject of Sir Walter Scott's popular historical romance novel Kenilworth in1821.
Object facts
- Title: Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, England
- Date: c. 1870s
- Creator attribution: Adolphe Braun (French, 1812–1877)
- Culture: France
- Type: Photograph
- Technique: mammoth untrimmed carbon print
- Dimensions: Image: 38.1 x 47.9 cm (15 x 18 7/8 in.); Paper: 39.9 x 50.1 cm (15 11/16 x 19 3/4 in.)
- Collection: PH - French 19th Century
- Department: Photography
- Accession number: 2021.62
A detail from the museum
Kenilworth Castle comprises five centuries of English military and civil architecture from a medieval fortress to an Elizabethan palace.
Collection credit
Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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