Late evening viewing – Sutcliffe and Bird
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe needs no introduction and some of his superb photos are below:
More of his photos were used in this video of Tull’s Flying Dutchman:
Graystone Bird was a professional Victorian photographer based in Bath, in the south west of England. He took thousands of photographs which he printed and sold as glass magic lantern projection slides. His slides are now very rare and our archive includes the largest known collection of Graystone Bird slides in the world.
Graystone specialised in particular themes ….. children; fishermen; rural scenes and hymn illustrations and was recognised as being one of the finest Victorian photographers. Indeed, he won hundreds of awards for his photography.
Because of his technique, the slides were mostly destroyed and so his work is rare to find; that which is available is flogged by photo companies and online they’re shown with ugly writing across the print which Bird himself would have been impressed with [not].
However, this youtube covers his work:
Finally, some more Sutcliffe superbly presented at the Garden Queen’s site.
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Simply magic, thank you for bringing this to my attention.
Very enjoyable and interesting, James. Not a fan of Jethro Tull but Chopin fitted in well.
They are superb photos. The first photo makes me think of the rare sighting of a Thames barge
Love the video of the Frank Meadow Sutcliffe pictures, I do often wonder if some of my ancestors appear in those photos. Some of the names appear in my family tree.
I had not heard of Graystone Bird before, it is a shame his work has been largely lost.
I didn’t realise I had been promoted to a Queen
