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Fenton, Roger
English (1819-1869)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Distant View of Sebastopol with the Lines of Gordon's Battery

1855 / print 1856
salted paper print
23.4 x 33.0 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 35731
81:1238:0029

OLD GEH NUMBER: 248-18
NON-GEH NUMBER: 57 (Boyer)

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) "Distant View of Sebastopol with the Lines of Gordon's Battery" "depose" "Photographed by R. Fenton. Manchester, T. Agnew & Sons, April 5, 1856. London, P&D Colnaghi & Co. Paris. Moulin, 23 Rue Richer. New York, Williams & Co." (in pencil) "B" (blindstamp) "T. Agnew & Sons. Publishers. Manchester" verso-(rubberstamp) "Eastman Historical Photographic Collection"

NOTES: Catalogued 8/96, MAP.

SUBJECTS:
landscape, battlefield
cityscape, harbour

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