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FREDERICK H. EVANS (1853-1943)
Lot 304 A PRIVATE COLLECTION, CANADA

FREDERICK H. EVANS (1853-1943)

Westminster Abbey: Across the Transepts, 1911

Closed7 October 2010

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FREDERICK H. EVANS (1853-1943)
Westminster Abbey: Across the Transepts, 1911
platinum print
signed and dated in pencil (on the mount); signed, titled, dated and annotated 'Copyright not to be reproduced' in ink (on the reverse of the mount)
9 5/8 x 6 7/8in. (24.4 x 17.4cm.); contemporary frame

Specialist note

The coronation of King George V on June 22, 1911, in Westminster Abbey, gave Evans the opportunity of photographing the cathedral emptied of its usual fixtures in preparation for the ceremony. He was commissioned by Country Life magazine to make the series and was justifiably proud of the result. He sent two to Alfred Stieglitz, with a note: 'The Across the Transepts is to me as fine a piece of atmospheric and spiritual truth as the camera need be expected to.'