View from the Lawn, Dennicanniby
1874
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1874
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
View from the Lawn, Dennicanniby is a 1874 by Vernon Heath, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a quiet lake framed by dark trees and rolling green hills. The water’s surface reflects the sky in soft gray and blue. Heath painted this in the 1870s from just above Ireland’s Upper Lake. Heath used a trick from his photography days. While most photographers stuck to small prints, he enlarged his glass negatives to bigger paper, keeping sharp details. It was rare back then. Check out more of Heath’s work at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
A distinguished photographer who received royal patronage, Vernon Heath traveled extensively throughout the British Isles documenting estates and landscapes on commission. This carefully composed scenic view, taken just above the Upper Lake of Three Lakes of Killarney in southwest Ireland, exemplifies the pioneering technique he developed in the early 1860s for enlarging 12x10-inch glass negatives. Made when contact printing was the norm, Heath’s carbon-printed enlargements showed no distortion and preserved the general artistic effect, which brought praise from the photographic press.…
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