Encampment of horse artillery – Vintage Print
![Encampment of horse artillery, [1855] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/40/40412e7bf85c-L.webp)
(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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Encampment of horse artillery comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Encampment of horse artillery
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Few images from the Crimean War show the daily work of mounted artillery as plainly as this encampment of the Royal Horse Artillery. Roger Fenton made it in 1855, when he was in the Crimea photographing the British army for the first time on a large scale. Horse artillery was built for speed: its guns were pulled by teams that could keep pace with cavalry, so the horses and their harness were as central to the unit as the cannon. The salted paper process Fenton used gave these prints a soft, warm tone, and the surviving examples are among the earliest photographs of an army in the field.
| Created / published | [1855] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : salted paper ; 29 x 37 cm. |
| Genre | Salted paper prints 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: George Eastman House Roger Fenton Series. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection. |
| Subjects | Great Britain.--Army.--Royal Horse Artillery--Facilities--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860. Crimean War, 1853-1856--Military personnel--British. Crimean War, 1853-1856--Military facilities--British. Military personnel--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860. Military camps--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,170 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-124459 |
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