Quartermaster Hill, 4th Lt. Dragoons. The Horse taken immediately after the winter season.
1855
Medium
Salted paper print, plate 44 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 19.4 × 16.8 cm (7 11/16 × 6 5/8 in.); Mount: 58.9 × 42.5 cm (23 1/4 × 16 3/4 in.)
Classification
salted paper print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
146147
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...