Lord Burghersh, Earl of Westmorland
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image: 18.3 × 15.2 cm · paper: 59.6 × 44 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of William and Margaret Lipscomb
Accession Number
2021.205
Tags
male
About this artwork
In 1855 Fenton traveled to the Crimea, a peninsula on the Black Sea in Eastern Europe, as part of a commercial venture to produce and publish photographs of the Crimean War. In this conflict, French, British, and Turkish troops were fighting against the Russian military. Lord Burghersh (1784–1859), a British soldier and diplomat, traveled to the Crimea in his role as ambassador to Austria; he was involved in negotiations with the Turkish government over the war.