Captain Brown, 4th Light Dragoons & servant, winter dress – Historic Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Captain Brown, 4th Light Dragoons & servant, winter dress, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Captain Brown, 4th Light Dragoons & servant, winter dress
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Captain George John Brown of the 4th Light Dragoons stands in his winter dress beside his servant, and the presence of the servant gives this portrait a domestic, almost casual quality. Roger Fenton made it in 1855 during his stay in the Crimea, when British forces were besieging Sevastopol through a harsh winter. Fenton's salted paper prints are among the earliest photographs taken of a military campaign, and this one shows his interest in officers and the men who attended them as well as in the war itself.
| Created / published | [1855] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : salted paper ; 20 x 17 cm. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1850-1860.Group portraits 1850-1860.Salted paper prints 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection. Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crimean War: His photographs and his letters from the Crimea, with an essay on his life and work / Helmut and Alison Gernsheim. London : Secker & Warburg, 1954, no. 71. |
| Subjects | Brown, George John--Military service. Great Britain.--Army.--Regiment of Light Dragoons, 4th (Queen's Own)--People--1850-1860. Crimean War, 1853-1856--Military personnel--British. Military personnel--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860. Military life--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,743 × 4,652 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222530 |
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