Lieut.-General Sir John Campbell and Captain HumeLieu.t -Gen.l Sir John Campbell – Antique Print
![Lieut.-General Sir John Campbell and Captain HumeLieu.t -Gen.l Sir John Campbell, [1855] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ba/bafcfdd0c42b-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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A window into the past: Lieut.-General Sir John Campbell and Captain HumeLieu.t -Gen.l Sir John Campbell, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Lieut.-General Sir John Campbell and Captain HumeLieu.t -Gen.l Sir John Campbell
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This pairing is unusual among Roger Fenton's Crimean portraits because it shows a senior general seated beside a junior officer rather than a single sitter. Lieutenant-General Sir John Campbell was killed during the assault on the Redan at Sevastopol in June 1855, so the picture records him in the final months of his life. Fenton made the salted paper print in the Crimea in 1855, when he was documenting British army officers and camp life for a British public following the war. The image is often read as a view of the close working ties between commanders and their staff.
| 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. 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. Alternate title from: George Eastman House Roger Fenton Series. 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. 50. |
| Subjects | Campbell, John,--Sir,--1807-1855--Military service. Hume, Gustavus,--Captain--Military service. Great Britain.--Army.--Regiment of Foot, 38th (1st Staffordshire)--People--1850-1860. Crimean War, 1853-1856--Military personnel--British. Military officers--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860. Military life--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,743 × 4,647 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222496 |
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