View of the Ribble, Yorkshire
Roger Fenton
c. 1860, printed c. 1870
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 16.5 × 20.9 cm (6 1/2 × 8 1/4 in.); Mount: 29.4 × 37.3 cm (11 5/8 × 14 11/16 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
103173
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...