Rievaulx Abbey, the High Altar
Roger Fenton
1854 · Albumen silver print from glass negative · Photographs
The romantic ruins of the early-thirteenth-century abbey of Rievaulx, much loved by artists, lie in a serene, steeply wooded valley in Yorkshire close to the family home of Fenton's wife, Grace. It is probably Grace who is posed kneeling, as if in prayer, at the site of the high altar.
- Artist
- Roger Fenton
- Date
- 1854
- Medium
- Albumen silver print from glass negative
- Department
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Gilman Collection, Purchase, William Talbott Hillman Foundation Gift, 2005
