Cossack Bay, Balaklava
1855
Medium
Salted paper print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 28.5 x 36.2 cm (11 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.) Mount: 43.2 x 59.7 cm (17 x 23 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.666
Tags
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...