Rievaulx Abbey, the North Transept
Roger Fenton
1854
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image: 28 x 36.9 cm (11 x 14 1/2 in.) mount: 40.4 x 59.5 cm (15 7/8 x 23 7/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Paul Mellon Fund
Accession Number
2007.29.20
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...