Major Burton and Officers of the Fifth Division Guards
Artist
Roger Fenton
(English, 1819 - 1869)
Date1855
MediumSalt print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 6 1/16 × 8 1/16 inches (15.4 × 20.48 cm)
Mount: 17 5/8 × 23 9/16 inches (44.77 × 59.85 cm)
Mount: 17 5/8 × 23 9/16 inches (44.77 × 59.85 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2008.18.12
SignedOn mount recto, bottom, printed in black type: "Photographed by R. Fenton Manchester. Published by T. Agnew & Sons, March 25, 1856 / London p & D Colnaghi. Paris Moulin 23 Rue Richer. New York Williams & Co."
InscribedOn mount recto, bottom, printed in black type: "Major Burton & Officers of the 5th Dragoon Guards / No 102."
MarkingsOn mount verso, upper right, in pencil: "12261-LZ.071xy / l [CIRCLED]";
On mount verso, lower right, in pencil: "MC:390".
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DescriptionImage of group of uniformed men standing next to one another with one sitting on the ground. Tents are visible at the base of a sloping hill along the right.Gallery LabelIn this photograph, Major Burton and his division stand in casual formation with their tents in the background. Roger Fenton made this image while serving as the English army’s official photographer in the Crimean War, a conflict between Russia and an alliance of England, France, and Turkey. Working out of a horse-drawn photographic van, Fenton made about 360 photographs in the spring of 1855—the first extensive photographic documentation of a war. Fenton photographed landscapes ravaged by battle and made posed portraits of leading officers.
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