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Rievaulx Abbey, the High Altar

Roger Fenton British
1854
Not on view
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Rievaulx Abbey, the High Altar
  • Artist: Roger Fenton (British, 1819–1869)
  • Date: 1854
  • Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
  • Dimensions: Image: 29.5 x 36.5 cm (11 5/8 x 14 3/8 in.)
    Mount: 48 x 61.5 cm (18 7/8 x 24 3/16 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, William Talbott Hillman Foundation Gift, 2005
  • Object Number: 2005.100.275
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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