This photograph is reproduced from the periodical “The Practical Photographer” : London: Library Series No 16 (March 1905) Alfieri, author of the 1893 photographic travel guide “Half Holidays with a Camera,” was a founder member of the British Linked Ring Brotherhood. Compared to this example, a reference image reviewed for research from the George Eastman House shows the original photogravure having an unmanipulated “straight” sky versus this halftone image with dramatic shafts of light emanating from the clouds. The photograph dates to 1893.
Caption information published in the Practical Photographer for this image: titled “The Derelict” :
“This picture was taken on Breydon Water, near Yarmouth, late one evening. It is a composition which well illustrates the force of a simple subject. This old boat in its forsaken lonely condition is happily placed, and at once engages our interest. The sentiment suggested by the end of the life of this old seagoing worthy is happily echoed by the declining hours of the day, when the setting sun draws round his couch the cloud curtains of the coming night. The student should not fail to note the shore line leading up to the focus of interest in the picture, and how its ever varying curvature gives it an attractive grace and force.”
This plate has gone missing from the original portfolio. A similar halftone view of the original photogravure has been substituted here.