Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Burghersh, C.B. – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Burghersh, C.B.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Burghersh, C.B.
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Lord Burghersh, the courtesy title of Francis Fane, later the 12th Earl of Westmorland, is named here as a lieutenant-colonel, according to the caption written on the back of the print. Roger Fenton made the portrait in 1855, while he was in the Crimea photographing British officers, soldiers, and the camps and harbors of the war. The salted paper process used for this print produced a soft, warm tone and required long exposures, which made posed portraits like this one a practical choice for early field photography. Fenton's Crimean work is widely studied as one of the first sustained records of a war made with a camera.
| Created / published | [1855] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : salted paper ; 19 x 16 cm. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 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. |
| Subjects | Westmorland, Francis William Henry,--Earl of,--1825-1891--Military service. Crimean War, 1853-1856--Military personnel--British. Military officers--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,673 × 4,517 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222668 |
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