Captain Graham and Captain MacLeod, 42nd Regiment
Roger Fenton
1855, printed 1856
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 18.1 × 16.2 cm (7 1/8 × 6 3/8 in.) mount: 59.6 × 44.1 cm (23 7/16 × 17 3/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert B. Menschel Fund
Accession Number
1998.55.1
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...