Geoffrey Roland Ballance: 1874-1934

Sheep graze on the shores of Lake Garda in Italy. The image most likely dates to ca. 1905-1910, consistent with other known Italian studies by the English photographer. This example was printed by Ballance sometime between 1924, when he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and living in Menton, France, and 1930, when he had moved to Dunbartonshire in Scotland.

Published: Full-page halftone in the April 1, 1912 edition of The Amateur Photographer and Photographic News. (p. 340)

print notes verso: Engraved: No. 15 E.   EVENING BY LAKE GARDA., along with black handstamp: G.R. Ballance F.R.P.S.   Menton

See: “The Work of G.R. Ballance” by Phil R. Riley in the August, 1908 issue of the Photo-Era. (p. 53)