Encampment of Horse Artillery – Vintage Print
![Encampment of Horse Artillery, [1855] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7c/7cd1490975a3-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. 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 Horse Artillery
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Made near Balaklava on the Crimean peninsula, this view shows a encampment of the Royal Horse Artillery, mounted gunners whose batteries were designed to move as quickly as cavalry. Roger Fenton took it in 1855, while he was in the Crimea documenting the British army during the Crimean War for audiences at home. As a salted paper print, it has the soft, warm tones typical of that process, and the horses and tents still give a clear sense of how the army organized its daily life in the field.
| Created / published | [1855] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : salted paper ; 28 x 34 cm. |
| Genre | Salted paper prints 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Gernsheim, Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crimean War: His photographs and his letters from the Crimea, with an essay on his life and work. 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. 46. |
| Subjects | Great Britain.--Army.--Royal Horse Artillery--Facilities--1850-1860. Crimean War, 1853-1856--Military facilities--British. Military camps--British--Ukraine--Balaklava--1850-1860. Military life--British--Ukraine--Balaklava--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,244 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-117383 |
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