Captain Verschoyle, Grenadier Guards (an Early Photographer), Taken at the Crimea
Roger Fenton
1855
Medium
Thinly albumenized print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 17.4 × 12.9 cm (6 7/8 × 5 1/8 in.); Mount: 25.7 × 18.4 cm (10 1/8 × 7 1/4 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
126336
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...