Colonel Simmons, attaché to Omar Pacha, The Crimea
Roger Fenton
1855
Medium
Thinly albumenized print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 27.2 × 22.4 cm (10 3/4 × 8 7/8 in.); Mount: 33 × 23.3 cm (13 × 9 3/16 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
126345
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...