The Entrance Front of Castle Howard

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Lithographer and photographer Francis Bedford was born in London; the son of an architect. From his late teens he exhibited drawings of architectural subjects at the Royal Academy (1833-49) and, through his early career, illustrated publications on ecclesiastical architecture. He was later employed by Day and Sons to transfer drawings onto lithographic stones for printing. With a team of assistants, he completed the 100 plates for Owen Jones’s ‘Grammar of Ornament’ (1856). From c.1853 Bedford took up photography. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert later bought and commissioned examples of his photography work. Bedford served as the vice-president of the Photographic Society in 1861 and in 1878. He died at home in Islington, at the age of 78.

Places

England, Castle Howard, Yorkshire, North Yorkshire

Subjects

horseback, statue (as Subject), topography, Victorian Genre, horse, man, woman, country house/mansion, dome, facade, courtyard, steps, door, window

Materials & Techniques

lithograph

Artist

William Richardson
Francis Bedford (1816 - 1894)

Title

The Entrance Front of Castle Howard

Date

Medium

Lithograph

Dimensions

height: 22.50 cm, width: 33.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Holleyman and Treacher, December 1959

GAC number

5054