New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Dawn and Sunset

Artist Henry Peach Robinson (English, 1830-1901)

Publisher Sun Artists

CultureEnglish

Date1885

MediumPhotogravure

DimensionsOverall, Support: 16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Overall, Image: 5 7/8 x 7 1/8 in. (14.9 x 18.1 cm)

InscribedLL, below image: "H. P. Robinson"

PortfolioSun Artists, January 1890

Credit LineMuseum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank

Object number93.19.5C

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DescriptionSUN ARTISTS was a 19th-century British journal devoted to photography. This January 1890 issue Number 2 contains text by Andrew Pringle and four photogravures by Henry Peach Robinson. H. P. Robinson was the leading proponent of Pictorial Effect. This was a style of photography that emulated painting by asembling multiple negatives to create a picture. This photogravure titled DAWN AND SUNSET, depicts an interior scene before a fireplace with an elderly man and a woman holding a child.

Label TextHenry Peach Robinson British, 1830–1901 top Dawn and Sunset, 1885 Photogravure (etching made from photographic negative), printed in Sun Artists (January 1890) bottom When the Day’s Work is Done, 1877 Photogravure (etching made from photographic negative), printed in Sun Artists (January 1890) These scenes combine multiple, separate instants to dramatize the passage of time. To make When the Day’s Work is Done, photographer Henry Peach Robinson combined three pairs of negatives, each shot at different moments, on individual sheets of glass. He then exposed each plate on a single sheet of paper to produce the final montage. The result is a dreamy scene with an unusual tonal range and an otherworldly arrangement of space (look at how the baskets in the right foreground seem to hover). Museum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank 93.19.5, 93.19.5c Exhibition History"Photographs Take Time: Pictures from the Chrysler Collection," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, April 6 - August 26, 2018.