Moscow, Domes of Churches in the Kremlin
Roger Fenton
1852
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image: 18.2 x 21.2 cm (7 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.) mat: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.) framed: 61 x 71.1 cm (24 x 28 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Paul Mellon Fund
Accession Number
2005.52.1
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...