Law Hill – Back (Wuthering Heights) · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Law Hill – Back (Wuthering Heights)
Subject: Brontë family; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Architecture, Domestic, in literature; Architecture in literature; Gothic revival (Literature); Great Britain; Gothic literature; Courtyards; Photogravure; Manors in literature; Manors
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Halifax; Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Here we see an image of Law Hill, a house near Halifax, England, on which Emily Bronte based the estate of Wuthering Heights. In this image we see the back of the house, taken from the courtyard on the back entrance to the house. This is the second in a series of photographs of the house, with others of the front and the outbuilding. The image is a reproduction of a photograph using a technique called photogravure, where photographs are taken on plates which could then be etched on to create a plate for use in a printing press.
Image Creator: W. R. Bland (artist); C. Barrow Keene (artist)
Type: StillImage; Photogravure
Identifier: mta:24888
Language: eng
Source Name: Wuthering Heights
Parent Collection: "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë. Illus. by Branwell Brontë & Emily Brontë, photogravures by R.W. Bland & C.B. Keene (1899)
Image: mta_24888_OBJ.png