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This photograph features a view of dark water under a cloudy sky, with a horizon in the bottom third dividing the sea and the sky. On the horizon, the shapes of distant buildings or rocks are visible, including one tall shape that could be a lighthouse. The sea is almost completely black, except for a few small white ripples in the bottom of the photograph. The sky is light gray and filled with puffy white clouds.
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This photograph features a view of dark water under a cloudy sky, with a horizon in the bottom third dividing the sea and the sky. On the horizon, the shapes of distant buildings or rocks are visible, including one tall shape that could be a lighthouse. The sea is almost completely black, except for a few small white ripples in the bottom of the photograph. The sky is light gray and filled with puffy white clouds.

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

A Strong Breeze, Flying Clouds

Colonel Stuart Wortley

Date
c. 1863
Medium
albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 20.2 x 26 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.) mount: 49.5 x 61.1 cm (19 1/2 x 24 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2007.10.1
Credit line
Robert B. Menschel Fund
Time span
1826 to 1850
Department
CPH
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • British
  • albumen silver print
  • Wind
Provenance

(Charles Isaacs Photographs, New York); NGA purchase, 2007.

Inscription

printed on mount below photograph: A STRONG BREEZE FLYING CLOUDS. / PHOTOGRAPHS FROM NATURE BY COLONEL STUART WORTLEY.; printed lower center: PUBLISHED BY JAMES SHELDON. WHOLESALE PUBLISHER, 31, ELY PLACE, LONDON, E.C.; by Charles Isaacs, lower right in graphite: Q1444; on verso, upper right in graphite: 10/6

NGA object ID 134847. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.