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Fenton, Roger
English (1819-1869)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Landing Place, Ordnance Wharf, Balaklava
PUBLISHED TITLE: View of Balaklava Harbor

1856 / print 1856
salted paper print
28.3 x 36.7 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 7974
81:1238:0010

OLD GEH NUMBER: EHPC 248-4
NON-GEH NUMBER: 36 (Boyer)

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

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
""Permanent" Survey of the History of Photography", US, NY, Rochester 1974-1978.//
"Beginnings of Art in Photography: Selections from the Museum's Nineteenth", US, NY, Rochester December 22 - October 7, 1990.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed on mount) "Landing Place, Ordnance Wharf, Balaklava" "Photographed by R. Fenton. Manchester. Published by T. Agnew & Sons, Febr. 29th 1856 London, P. & D. Colnaghi & C. Paris. Moulin, 23, Rue Richer. New York. Williams & C." "Depose" (blindstamp) "T. Agnew & Sons Publishers Manchester"

NOTES: Cataloged 11/89, DZ, updated 8/96, MAP. See 81:1238:17 for a similar view.

SUBJECTS:
landscape, harbor
transportation, ships
artifact, cannon

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