Chinese Jewel Casket
Roger Fenton
1860
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 34.3 x 42.9 cm (13 1/2 x 16 7/8 in.) Mount: 45.5 x 56 cm (17 15/16 x 22 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Paul F. Walter, 2005
Accession Number
2005.486
Tags
Still LifeBeadsNecklaces
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...