Currey, F.E.
British (1814-1896)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Heron

ca. 1861-1880
PUBLISHER: Amateur Photographic Association
albumen print
20.3 x 14.5 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 6082
77:0689:0144

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Newhall, Beaumont. --The History of Photography from 1839 to Present.-- Museum of Modern Art, 1964.//
Sobieszek, Robert A. --Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections.-- New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. pg. 146.//
Seiberling, Grace & Bloore, Carolyn. --Amateurs, Photography, and the Mid-Victorian Imagination.-- Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1986. fig. 56.//

Sobieszek, Robert A. --A Selection of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Victorian Photography.-- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Nature and Focus: American Painting of the 19th Century", US, TX, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, January 21 - April 2, 1972.//
"Images of Excellence", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 1 - April 26, 1987. (Traveled).//
"Beginnings of Art in Photography: Selections from the Museum's Nineteenth", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, December 22 - October 7, 1990.//

NOTES: Catalogued by R. Sobieszek/PB, 3/85; updated MAP, 3/97.

SUBJECTS:
still life, heron
allegory, death