We stop with astonishment before M. Le Grays "Sea and Sky", the most successful seizure of water and cloud yet attempted. The effect is the simplest conceivable. There is a plain, unbroken prairie of open sea, lined and rippled with myriad smiling trails of minute undulations, dark and sombrous and profoundly calm, over the dead below smooth as a tombstone. Journal of the Photographic Society (21 February 1857)
