Photographer:          Alfred Pettitt, Keswick, England

Title:                          703.  N.E. View. Furness Abbey

Date:                          c1870

Medium:                    Albumen print on paper mount

Size of Image:           6 3/8 x 8 1/8  inches

Size of Mount:          11 x 13 7/8  inches.

Condition:                 Rich tonal image, sharp and clean with light spotting to sky, photographer’s blind stamp on image bottom right corner, mount shows some light foxing/aging, mount corners bumped/chipped with one large chip at top left corner.

Other:                        Fine view  of the ruins of Furness Abbey, Cumbria in England’s Lake District by artist/photographer Alfred Pettitt, Keswick.  Pettitt was active from around 1860 through the 1880s with many of his images reproduced as postcards into the early 20^th Century.  A full page advertisement for Pettitt Gallery with sample portrait of the author appears in the “Shepherd’s Guide,” by Daniel Gate in 1879.  It reads,

Under the Patronage of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales.
ALFRED PETTITT'S FINE ART GALLERY OF THE LAKE DISTRICT, And the Derwentwater Portrait & Landscape Photographic Establishment, ST. JOHN STREET (90 yards from the Royal Oak Hotel, on the Ambleside Road), KESWICK. OPEN FROM 8-0 A.M. TO 10-0 P.M., FREE. (Established 1854.)
THE PAINTINGS (in Oil and Water Colors) Exhibited for Sale, represent the Mountains, Lakes, and Passes of the English lake District; by ALFRED PETTITT, KESWICK.
PHOTOGRAPHS. Mr. PETTITT'S series (4) of the English Lake District are the Largest and most complete published, and include Views of and from the summit of Scawfell Pike, Great Gable, Helvellyn, Striding Edge, Red Tarn, Pillar Rock, Wastwater, &c.
CATALOGUES on application to Mr. PETTITT, or at the Hotels and Stationers of the District. Payne Jenning's Photographs and Books also on Sale.
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The DERWENTWATER PORTRAIT STUDIO (in connection with the Fine Art Gallery) is Open Daily, and Portraits Taken in all the Newest Styles, including the 'Rembrandt,' 'Tourist,' &c. &c.
ALFRED PETTITT, FINE ART GALLERY ST. JOHN'S STREET, KESWICK

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