Sir Colin Campbell Lord Clyde (1792-1863), Field Marshal; At the Crimea
1855
Medium
Thinly albumenized print, from the album "Photographic Pictures of the Seat of War in the Crimea"
Dimensions
Image/paper: 23.3 × 18.5 cm (9 3/16 × 7 5/16 in.); Mount: 30.4 × 23.8 cm (12 × 9 3/8 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
126352
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...