Benjamin Brecknell Turner
The Church Oak, Hawkhurst
About this artwork
Turner's photography records rural scenes that his contemporaries admired for their Englishness. The blasted English oak symbolises the strength and endurance of the English nation. The sophisticated city dwellers who took an interest in Turner's photography, would have appreciated this image not only for its patriotic message but for it also being 'the mirror of nature'.
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artist:Benjamin Brecknell Turner (1815 - 1894) English
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title:The Church Oak, Hawkhurst
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date created:1852 - 1854
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materials:Albumen print
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measurements:29.20 x 39.00 cm
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credit line:Presented by Mrs Elizabeth Uldall 1987
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accession number:PGP 13.2
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Benjamin Brecknell Turner
Benjamin Brecknell Turner
Benjamin Brecknell Turner was a candle-maker by trade, who in his spare time produced some of the finest landscape photographs of the nineteenth century. A friend of Fox Talbot, he held a licence for Talbot's calotype process. Turner continued to exploit the technique for its aesthetic potential...