Harbour, Swansea, Wales

About the Artwork

A successful timber merchant in the Hackney area of London and photographer, Alfred Rosling is known for several bodies of photographic work. His earliest photographs were made for a stereoscope establishment, but he later became interested in taking landscape photographs and became very well connected with many British photographic circles. In addition to picturesque views of Surrey, he spent time in South Wales where Harbor, Swansea, Wales was taken. There he met John Dillwyn Llewelyn and likely the Reverend Calvert Richard Jones, Jr., as well as others in the Swansea photographic circle. His son-in-law, Frances Frith, published a number of Rosling's landscape prints.

Inscriptions

Written in pencil on verso: "F489"; "ROSLING, FLOAT AT SWANSEA"

Exhibition history

Industry and Photography: Selections from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1997-March 1, 1998).

Quick Overview

Artist: Alfred Rosling (British, 1802-c. 1880s)
Date: 1855
Medium: albumen print from wax paper negative
Dimensions: Image: 16.1 x 19.7 cm (6 5/16 x 7 3/4 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photograph
Department: Photography
Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
Accession no.: 1996.353

Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.