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Cleveland Museum of Art

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Captain Horatio Ross — River Landscape, Scotland

Captain Horatio Ross

River Landscape, Scotland

1858

Military officer's artistic training produces romantic landscape photography of exceptional technical skill. Wax paper negative process creates atmospheric effects that rival contemporary landscape painting.

Medium
albumen print from wax paper negative

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