Officers on the Look out at Cathcarts Hill
1855
Medium
Salted paper print, from the album "Photographic Pictures of the Seat of War in the Crimea" (1856)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 23.3 × 34.7 cm (9 3/16 × 13 11/16 in.); Mount: 40.3 × 53.3 cm (15 7/8 × 21 in.)
Classification
salted paper print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
123401
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...