1959 (printed 2010). Inscribed in pencil with title and date, numbered 3/50, and with the artist's estate stamp and the 'RIBA' copyright credit stamp verso. Gelatin silver print.
image: 20 1/8 x 14 1/2 in. (51.1 x 36.8cm)
sheet: 23 3/4 x 19 15/16 in. (60.3 x 50.6cm)

Provenance: Chris Beetles Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Washington, D.C. (acquired directly from the above in 2010).
LITERATURE:
Robert Elwall, Evocations of Place: The Photography of Edwin Smith, London: Merrell, 2007 (illustrated on the frontispiece).

Born in London in 1912, Edwin Smith was a prominent photographer and artist. Beginning in 1935, he was a freelance photographer for Vogue, although his interests ultimately lay outside the glamorous realm of fashion and celebrity. The son of a stonemason and an architect by training, he was more fascinated by the English landscape and craftsmanship of its architecture. Lured out of the capital city into the countryside, Smith toured the nation photographing small mining communities, cathedrals and abbeys, farm yards, docks and follies.