Robertson, James
British (b. England, 1813-1888)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: The battlefield of Tchernaya
ALBUM TITLE: --Athenes, Constantinople, Sebastopol--, Constantinople, ca. 1855.

ca. 1855
salted paper print
24.1 x 29.0 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEG: 43478
79:0001:0037

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Santeul, Claude de. "La premier reportage photographique de guerre 1854-1855.", --Photo Illustration: Revue Internationale De Documentation Phot--, Numero 6, 1934. pl. 143.//
James, Lawrence. --Crimea 1854-56: The War with Russia from Contemporary Photographs.-- New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1981. pl. 69.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 254.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the Collection (reinstallation)", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, September 18, 1993 - June 5, 1994.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the George Eastman House Collection", Japan, Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, November 18, 1995 - January ??, 1996.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(blindstamped in image) "G. Cromer Collection" (signed on negative) "Robertson" (handwritten in ink on image) "A. Soyer from his friend Roberston" (printed below image) "Photographie par Robertson de Constantinople."

NOTES: Catalogued 6/93, MMD; updated 9/96, MAP. Title from L. James, "Crimea 1854-1856. The War with Russia from contemporary photographs". The first page of the album presents a pencil inscription written by G. Cromer: "The War in Orient presents the earliest photographs of war by Szathmari, Fenton, and Robertson. This album by Robertson contains some early photographs of war and of a war cemetery. This album contains also photographs of 'types and costumes' by Robertson and 'views of Greece and Constantinople' exhibited at the Exposition in Paris in 1855 (see "Esquisses Photographiques" by Ernest Lacan, Paris, 1856, pages 104, 155 and 167). 52 plates in this album, 6 colored" [cataloger's trans.]

SUBJECTS:
landscape, desert
architecture, tents
architecture, ruins
architecture, bridge