Encampment of the 71st Regiment at Balaclava commissariat camp &c – Vintage Wall Art
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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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This rare historic photograph captures Encampment of the 71st Regiment at Balaclava commissariat camp &c in remarkable 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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Encampment of the 71st Regiment at Balaclava commissariat camp &c
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Few pictures from the Crimean War show the everyday business of camp life as plainly as this view of the 71st Regiment, the Highland Light Infantry, at the commissariat camp near Balaklava. Roger Fenton made it around 1855, during the months he spent in the Crimea documenting the British army, and it is an early salted paper print from that campaign. Balaklava's harbor, south of Sevastopol, was the hub through which food, ammunition and equipment reached the troops, so the huts and gathered soldiers reflect the supply work that kept the siege going. Fenton's Crimean photographs are among the earliest sustained photographic records of a war.
| Created / published | [1855] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : salted paper ; 25 x 34.5 cm. |
| Genre | 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. 30. |
| Subjects | Great Britain.--Army.--Regiment of Foot, 71st (Highland Light Infantry)--1850-1860. Crimean War, 1853-1856--Military facilities--British--Ukraine--Balaklava. Military exchanges--British--Ukraine--Balaklava--1850-1860. Military camps--British--Ukraine--Balaklava--1850-1860. Huts--Ukraine--Balaklava--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,652 × 3,733 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222552 |
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