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

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: The Barracks Battery
ALBUM TITLE: "Athenes, Constantinople, Sebastopol"

1855
salted paper print
23.8 x 30.2 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEG: 34959
79:0001:0045

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Gernsheim, Helmut and Alison. --Roger Fenton: Photographer of the Crimean War.-- London: Secker & Warburg, 1954. pl. 83.//
Hodgson, Pat. --Early War Photographs.-- Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974. pgg. 46-47.//
Sobieszek, Robert A. --Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections.-- New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. pg. 123.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 255.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Images of Excellence", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 1 - April 26, 1987. (Traveled).//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(signature in ink) "Robertson" (printed below image) "Photographie par Robertson de Constantinople"

NOTES: Catalogued 4/85, RAS/PB, updated 9/96, MAP. See 81:1671:4 and 79:073:10 for same image. 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:
architecture, barracks
artifact, cannons
architecture, war ravaged