Omar Pacha
Roger Fenton
1855
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 17.7 x 12.4 cm (6 15/16 x 4 7/8 in.) mount: 59.7 x 43.9 cm (23 1/2 x 17 5/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Hans P. Kraus, Jr.
Accession Number
2005.115.2
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...