Vernon Heath
The Vale of Festiniog

ArtistBritish, 1819–1895
CultureBritish
Titles
  • The Vale of Festiniog
Date1870s
MediumCarbon print
DimensionsImage (Visible): 20 15/16 × 9 in. (53.2 × 22.8 cm)
Mount: 26 9/16 × 14 7/16 in. (67.4 × 36.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by W. Burt Nelson in memory of Phyllis Ann Chancellor Nelson
Object number2022.5
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


On January 25, 1839, at the Royal Institute in London, Vernon Heath heard the life-changing news of photography’s invention. Three years later, he purchased his first camera. By the 1850s, he was selling photographic materials, and by 1863 he opened his own photographic studio. Imbued with a delicate, romantic splendor, The Vale of Festiniog is the work of an artist devoted to beauty and the mastery of photographic technology and process. Carbon prints are rich in depth and tonal subtlety but notoriously complex to produce.



Provenance[Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc., New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in black on overmat, bottom below image: The Vale of Festiniog- “It was a lovely autumn morn, // “So indistinctly bright.”- VERNON HEATH

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