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Fenton, Roger
English (1819-1869)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Landing Place, Railway Stores, Balaklava

1855 / print 1856
salted paper print
29.0 x 36.8 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 17511
81:1238:0017

OLD GEH NUMBER: 248-54
NON-GEH NUMBERS: 37 (Boyer) / 5016, 4 1/2

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Borcoman, James. --Magicians of Light: Photographs from the Collection of the National Gallery of Canada.-- Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1993. pg. 67.//
Hambourg, Maria Morris & Apraxine, Pierre & Daniel, Malcolm. --The Waking Dream: Photography's First Century. Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection.-- New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. pg. 302.//
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) "Landing Place, Railway Stores, Balaklava" "depose" "Photographed by R. Fenton. Manchester, Published by T. Agnew & Sons, March 25th, 1856. London, P&D Colnaghi & Co. Paris Moulin, 23 Rue Richer. New York, Williams & Co." (in pencil) "4 1/2" recto-(blindstamp) "T. Agnew & Sons. Publishers. Manchester" verso-(rubberstamp) "Eastman Historical Photographic Collection"

NOTES: See 81:1238:10 (similar view). Catalogued 9/96, MAP.

SUBJECTS:
people, soldiers
transportation, ships
architecture, houses

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