Interior of the (Russian) Barrack Battery, Showing Mantelets
James Robertson
1855
Medium
Salted paper print, from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 23.3 × 27.8 cm (9 3/16 × 11 in.); Mount: 42.5 × 58.9 cm (16 3/4 × 23 1/4 in.)
Classification
salted paper print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
143479
About the Artist
James Robertson
James Downie Robertson, known professionally as James D. Robertson (1931–2010), was a distinguished Scottish painter whose vibrant depictions of the rugged West Coast landscapes profoundly shaped modern Scottish art. Born in Cowdenbeath, Fife, as one of twin boys, his family relocated to Glasgow at the outset of World War II, where he attended Hillhead High School. Robertson studied at the Glasgow...