Frank Meadow Sutcliffe

Career Photographer

Biography 'Sutcliffe worked in Whitby from 1875 until his death. Most of the photographs for which he is now famous were taken, often out-of-season, for his own satisfaction rather than as part of his 'bread and butter' work. They include many of the harbour, fishing and fisher-folk. His equipment ranged from the cumbersome brass and mahogany full-plate cameras with their wet collodion process of the late nineteenth century to the hand-held bellows types of this century using celluloid negatives. Copies of many of his photographs, of which the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society has the copyright, are available from the Sutcliffe Gallery, Flowergate, Whitby, who also publish several volumes of selected images.' [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 12/12/2007]

Biography References http://www.whitbymuseum.org.uk/d12/photo/index.htm / http://www.sutcliffe-gallery.co.uk/

County Yorkshire

Relationship Photographer / Publisher/ Press / Printer

Archaeological or Ethnographic Photographs

Date made around Unknown

Dates active 1853-1941

Donated around Unknown

English collections Photographs of fishermen in Whitby

Institution Yes

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 5

Connections Estella Louisa Michaela Canziani