Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I assume this is a later ( than 1860's ) enlarged print? It is listed as 26x20 inches, a bit big for a contact print....whcich is all they did back then, I think... Truly beautiful image... very relaxing to look at..... Frank > >Here's a picture - Windsor Castle from the Thames by Robert Vernon Heath. >OK, it's not my own work but it is interesting - to me anyway! The picture >is 26 inches by 20 inches and was taken in the 1860s by Vernon Heath who >had >been commissioned by Queen Victoria to photograph the interior of the >castle. She also got him to take the last photograph of her husband >(consort) Prince Albert just before his death in 1861. Vernon Heath was one >of the most prominent early photographers in Britain and exhibited along >with the likes of Roger Fenton and Julia Margaret Cameron. Picked this up >last week at a sale where nobody seemed to realise what it was. Have a look >at it in large detail and yes I realise it is tired looking but it still >holds its magic for me. > >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Oddments/WindsorCastlefrom+the+Thames_VernonHeath.jpg.html > >I'm now agonizing over whether I should sell it on in Sothebys, Christies, >or Bonhams. She who must be obeyed says sell it, but I want to keep it. For >some inexplicable When I look at it a great tranquility descends upon my >soul >