Charles Hind, General
Roger Fenton
1855
Medium
Thinly albumenized print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 11 × 9.5 cm (4 3/8 × 3 3/4 in.); Mount: 23 × 16.5 cm (9 1/16 × 6 1/2 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
123392
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...