The soft light of the Lake District in the permanence of platinum printing.

Alfred Pettitt was from Birmingham but moved to Windermere in 1851. He exhibited paintings at the Royal Scottish Academy from 1858 and in the same year he opened a gallery in Keswick with his brother George W. Pettitt. In 1857 they showed a collection of oil paintings at the Gallery of Fine Art, Grasmere under the title 'The Highways and By-ways of English Lake Scenery' and in the same year a number of their paintings of Lake District views were engraved by W. Banks & Sons of Edinburgh....

Alfred Pettitt was taught photography by William Baldry of Grasmere and produced a series of stereograms of the Lake District. He exhibited at the Royal Photographic Society's annual exhibitions between 1874 and 1879 and was an RPS member in 1879. He is also recognised for his beautiful platinum-printed landscapes, such as this example. At the RPS exhibition in 1882 several views were exhibited under the name Alfred G.Pettitt, one, possibly this, titled 'A Quiet Morning, Derwentwater'.