Lichfield Cathedral from the North-West
Roger Fenton
1858
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image: 35.2 x 43 cm (13 7/8 x 16 15/16 in.) mount: 50.7 x 68.5 cm (19 15/16 x 26 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Paul Mellon Fund
Accession Number
2005.52.2
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...