Group at Head Quarters
Roger Fenton
1855
Medium
Salted paper print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 19.2 x 16.4 cm (7 9/16 x 6 7/16 in.) Mount: 57.7 x 40.2 cm (22 11/16 x 15 13/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Paul F. Walter, 2009
Accession Number
2009.460.9
Tags
SoldiersMen
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...