Sir Jas. York Scarlett (1799-1880), General, led Charge of Heavy Brigade, Balaclava (left); Edward Wm. Lowe (1820-1880), General (right); Taken at the Crimea
Roger Fenton
1855
Medium
Thinly albumenized print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 19.6 × 16.4 cm (7 3/4 × 6 1/2 in.); Mount: 27.6 × 22.2 cm (10 7/8 × 8 3/4 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
126332
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...