Derwentwater
Roger Fenton
c. 1860
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 22.4 × 28.7 cm (8 13/16 × 11 5/16 in.) mount: 24.8 × 31.5 cm (9 3/4 × 12 3/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert B. Menschel Fund
Accession Number
1997.97.2
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...