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
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...