Major Gen'l Charles Ashe Windham
Medium
Salted paper print, plate 10 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 14 × 10.6 cm (5 9/16 × 4 3/16 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
146116
Art Historical Context
**Major Gen'l Charles Ashe Wind** (1855) is a striking salted paper print by the photographic team Sharp and Melville, featured as plate 10 in seminal album *Photographs Taken the Crimea* (185). Capturing the poised figure of British Major General Charles Ashe Windham against a stark Crimean backdrop, this intimate portrait measures just 14 × 10.6 cm on its original mount. Housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Photography and Media Department, it exemplifies mid-19th-century innovation in visual storytelling. Created amid the Crimean War (1853–1856), this image belongs to one of the earlie...