Balaklava, from Guard's Hill
1855
Medium
Salted paper print, plate 15 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 25 × 34.1 cm (9 7/8 × 13 7/16 in.); Mount: 42.5 × 58.9 cm (16 3/4 × 23 1/4 in.)
Classification
salted paper print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
146121
About the Artist
Roger Fenton · 1819–1819
Roger Fenton (1819–1869), born into a prosperous Lancashire merchant family as the son of banker and MP John Fenton, initially pursued a scholarly path, earning a first-class BA from the University of London in 1840 before studying law at University College London. He abandoned these pursuits for art, training as a painter under the history painter Charles Lucy in London by 1847—the two became clo...