Porch of St. Laurent's Church, Nuremberg
Roger Fenton
1856
Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
image: 18.3 × 13.7 cm (7 3/16 × 5 3/8 in.) sheet: 21.9 × 15.2 cm (8 5/8 × 6 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mark Katzman and Hilary Skirboll
Accession Number
2025.15.3
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...