Glen Lun. The Rustic Bridge

1870s

Not on view

Bedford was one of the most successful commercial landscape photographers of his era. He created stunning views of the English countryside, particularly in and around the developing spa towns to which London’s middle classes flocked throughout the 1860s. Contemporary viewers familiar with Richard Doddridge Blackmore’s immensely popular novel Lorna Doone (1869) would have recognized these ethereal falls as the place where the title character meets her savior and future husband, John Ridd. Connecting the documentary to the fictional, Bedford’s photograph brings the story to life.

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Title: Glen Lun. The Rustic Bridge
Artist: Francis Bedford (British, London 1816–1894 London)
Date: 1870s
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1972
Object Number: 1972.567.12
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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