Rocken End in a Storm, Isle of Wight
Roger Fenton
c. 1853
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 17.1 × 21.1 cm (6 3/4 × 8 5/16 in.) mount: 31.3 × 40.1 cm (12 5/16 × 15 13/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2018.168.4
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...