Valley of the Ribble and Pendle Hill
1859
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
32.1 x 42.5 cm (12 5/8 x 16 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace and Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gifts, 1997
Accession Number
1997.382.33
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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...