Major General Garrett and Officers of the 46th
1855
Medium
Salted paper print, plate 46 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 20.2 × 16.1 cm (8 × 6 3/8 in.); Mount: 58.9 × 42.5 cm (23 1/4 × 16 3/4 in.)
Classification
salted paper print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
146149
Art Historical Context
In 1855, amid the grueling Crimean War (1853–1856), pioneering photographer Roger Fenton captured *Major General Garrett and Officers the 46th*, a formal group portrait of British military leaders. Fenton, often hailed as one of the first war photographers, traveled to the Crimea at the behest of the British press to document the conflict's human side. This salted paper print, plate 46 from his seminal 1856 album *Photographs Taken the Crimea*, offers a rare glimpse into the poised camaraderie of officers like Major General Garrett, contrasting the war's harsh realities of disease and siege. ...
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...