Fenton, Roger
English (1819-1869)

TITLE ON OBJECT: A Quiet Day in the Mortar Battery

1855 / print 1856
salted paper print
23.8 x 34.5 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 17539
81:1238:0052

OLD GEH NUMBER: EHPC 248-3
NON-GEH NUMBER: 57 (Boyer)

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Gernsheim, Helmut and Alison. --Roger Fenton: Photographer of the Crimean War.-- London: Secker & Warburg, 1954. pl. 52.//
Jammes, M. Th. & A. --Camera "The First War Photographs.".-- Lucerne: C.J. Bucher, Ltd., 1964. pg. 27.//
Hannavy, John. --Roger Fenton of Crimble Hall.-- London: Gordon Fraser, 1975. pl. 18.//
Haworth-Booth, Mark. --The Golden Age of British Photography 1839-1900.-- New York: Aperture, Inc./Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984. pg. 73.//
Lloyd, Valerie. --Roger Fenton: Photographer of the 1850s.-- London: South Bank Board, 1988. pl. 57.//
This image was part of GEH's submission to Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in 1998 (the testbed edition).//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 253.//

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-(printed on mount below image) "A Quiet Day in the Mortar Battery" "depose" "Photographed by R. Fenton. Manchester, Published by T. Agnew & Sons. Jan 1st 1856. London, P&D Colnaghi & Co. Paris Moulin 23, Rue Richer. New York. Williams & Co." (blindstamp) "T. Agnew & Sons Publishers Manchester" verso-(rubberstamp) "Eastman Historical Photographical 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 not in an album form. Catalogued 6/93, MMD, updated 7/96, MAP.

SUBJECTS:
event, war
occupation, soldier
people, sleeping
architecture, fortification