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Fenton, Roger (attributed)
English (1819-1869)

TITLE ON OBJECT: St. John's College, Oxford

1858
albumen print
26.5 x 21.0 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection Museum of Modern Art
GEH NEG: 14609
81:1237:0029

OLD GEH NUMBER: 370-298

This image was part of GEH's 1998 submission (the testbed edition) to AMICO (Art Museum Imaging Consortium).//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Figure In Landscape", US, NY, Rochester February 12 -, 1971.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(in ink, on mount) "St. Johns College. Oxford" (in pencil) "1858. photo Fenton"

NOTES: Catalogued 9/96, MAP. This picture is now only attributed to Roger Fenton. The attribution is derived from John Hannavy's remark that Fenton, towards the end of his career, seemed "to have been almost obsessed with straight lines and with perspective...". See J. Hannavy, --Roger Fenton of Crimble Hall--, London, Gordon Fraser, 1975, p. 92.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, college
landscape, figure in

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