Wardsend Cemetery, Hillsborough, Sheffield
- Title:
- Wardsend Cemetery, Hillsborough, Sheffield
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Landscape and the Environment
- Creator:
- Davies, John
- Creation Date:
- 1981 (negative)
1985 (print)
- ID Number:
- 2019.012.001
- File Name:
- 2019.012.001.jpg
- Work Type:
- Photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- landscape photography
cemeteries
Sheffield
England - Measurement:
- 50.6 x 60.3 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Monochrome image looking down from a hillside over train tracks and a small cemetery clustered with headstones. In the distance on all sides are factories with tall smokestacks. Scrubby bushes and trees cluster from the hillside into the distance, wrapping around the cemetery. The top third of the image is sky with a few clouds.
- Notes:
- Matted gelatin silver print.
- Cite As:
- John Davies (British, born 1949). Wardsend Cemetery, Hillsborough, Sheffield, 1981 (negative); 1985 (print). Gelatin silver print, sheet: 50.6 x 60.3 cm. Acquired through the Class of 1962 Fund for Photography, 2019.012.001.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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