Cemetery, Cathcart's Hill
Roger Fenton
1855, printed 1856
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 17 × 24.5 cm (6 11/16 × 9 5/8 in.) mount: 43.4 × 59.5 cm (17 1/16 × 23 7/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
1995.36.81
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...