[Photographs of paintings by J. F. Kensett]

Kensett, John Frederick, 1816-1872 · 1874 · 46 pictures

An album of photographs documenting paintings by the American landscape painter John Frederick Kensett, made in 1874 as a record of his work. The photographs show the paintings hung salon-style in corner walls of a gallery with patterned wall panels, so the pictures record a display rather than a single scene. A designer could take from them the dense grid of gilt frames and the tonal sepia range of the landscapes, useful for layouts built on repeated framed rectangles.

Kensett, John Frederick, 1816-1872 -- Pictorial works · Landscape painting, American -- Pictorial works

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