Zouave, 2nd Division
Medium
Salted paper print from collodion glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 7 5/8 × 6 7/16 in. (19.4 × 16.4 cm) Mount: 23 5/8 × 17 1/4 in. (60 × 43.8 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2015
Accession Number
2015.41
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Roger Fenton|Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd.|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...