In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Despite the Industrial Revolution, Benjamin Brecknell Turner portrayed the English countryside as stable, harmonious, and unchanging—a place where nature and humanity coexist in complete harmony. Here the artist captured a pastoral scene in Surrey, combining towering trees, houses, and farm buildings to create a skillful blend of rustic domesticity and charming landscape. Preferring to photograph at an angle, Turner's composition is enlivened by the strong diagonals found in the receding lines of trees, fence, and pathway, which lead the viewer in an orderly progression from foreground to background. According to family tradition, Scotch Firs, Hawkhurst was so admired by Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert that Turner presented him with a print of the photograph in 1853.
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John Dillwyn Llewelyn — [View of a House in the Woods, with 
George Shadbolt — The Time of Promise
George Shadbolt (British, 1819–1901) — Green Meadows
Untitled (Landscape)
Henry White — Hunford Mill, Surrey
Gustave Le Gray — Fontainebleau, chemin sablonneux montant
George Bankart — On the "Sow" near Walton's House at Shallow
John Dillwyn Llewelyn (British, 1810–1882) — The Country Bri
John Lloyd (British, 1811–1865) — Untitled
Horatio Ross — Glen Forsa, Isle of Mull
Thomas Davies — Wood-scene, Norton, Cheshire
Plunket — The Woodland Stream
