Quo Vadis
Catalogue
- Year
- 1890
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 16.1 × 21.2 cm (6 3/8 × 8 3/8 in.); Paper: 17.8 × 22.8 cm (7 1/16 × 9 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Frank Meadow Sutcliffe
Artist
Photography
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe was a British photographer known for his documentary photographs of fishing communities and maritime life in Whitby, Yorkshire, between the 1880s and early 1900s. Working with large-format cameras and platinum and gelatin silver prints, he captured the daily labor and social fabric of working-class coastal life with both ethnographic precision and compositional sensitivity. His archive of thousands of glass negatives documents a vanishing way of life and remains a primary historical record of late Victorian and Edwardian working communities.
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- Frank Meadow Sutcliffe
- Year
- 1890
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 16.1 × 21.2 cm (6 3/8 × 8 3/8 in.); Paper: 17.8 × 22.8 cm (7 1/16 × 9 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1890-104293
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified