St. Paul's, from Ludgate Circus
Artist
Alvin Langdon Coburn
(English, born America, 1882 - 1966)
Date1905
MediumPhotogravure
DimensionsImage: 15 3/16 × 11 5/16 inches (38.58 × 28.73 cm)
Sheet: 16 1/16 × 12 inches (40.8 × 30.48 cm)
Sheet: 16 1/16 × 12 inches (40.8 × 30.48 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1214
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DescriptionA softly focused image of a domed cathedral above a busy street with puffs of smoke in lower right corner.Exhibition HistoryArt in the Age of Steam: Europe, America and the Railway, 1830-1960. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, April 18 – August 10, 2008, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 13, 2008 -January 18, 2009, no. 93.
Alvin Langdon Coburn photographed London and New York extensively at the turn of the 1900s, creating atmospheric, elevated street views. Fascinated by the relationship between the old and the new during a time of rapid industrialization, Coburn contrasts London’s towering St. Paul’s Cathedral, built between 1675 and 1710, with the ephemeral steam of a train in the foreground. The railroad is shown as an integral part of the busy street, crowded with pedestrians and traffic, set against the backdrop of London’s historic skyline.
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