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Fenton, Roger
English (1819-1869)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Major General Estcourt

1855
salted paper print
19.3 x 15.4 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection Alden Scott Boyer
81:1238:0012

OLD GEH NUMBER: EHPC 248-46
NON-GEH NUMBERS: 28 (Boyer) / 173

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

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed on mount below image) "Major General Estcourt" "depose" "No. 173" "Photographed by R. Fenton. Manchester, published by T. Agnew & Sons, Nov. 19, 1855. London P&D Colnaghi & Co., Paris Moulin, 23 Rue Richer. New York, Williams & Co." verso-(rubberstamp) "Eastman Historical Photographic Collection"

NOTES: Fenton's work from the Crimea totalled more than 350 photographs made from wet-collodion negatives. The work was published as a series and in album form. Catalogued 7/96, MAP. See also 81:1238:43, 81:1234:25, 81:1238:30 for variant images with same published number [173].

SUBJECT: personage, military / Estcourt, Maj. Gen.

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