The Valley of the Shadow of Death
1855
Medium
Salted paper print, plate 8 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 27 × 36.4 cm (10 11/16 × 14 3/8 in.); Mount: 42.5 × 58.9 cm (16 3/4 × 23 1/4 in.)
Classification
salted paper print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
146114
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...