Officers of the 57th Regiment – Historic Reproduction
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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 Officers of the 57th Regiment in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Officers of the 57th Regiment
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Officers of the 57th Regiment stand before a row of bell tents on the Crimean plateau, a camp setting that marks this print as a record of daily army life rather than a studio portrait. The regiment, known as the West Middlesex, had held its ground at the Battle of Inkerman in November 1854 and earned the nickname the Die-Hards. Roger Fenton made the picture in 1855, during a spring he spent in Crimea producing some of the earliest large-scale photographic records of a war. The salted paper process gives the print its soft, warm tones, quite unlike the sharper images of later decades.
| Created / published | [1855] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : salted paper ; 17 x 17 cm. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1850-1860.Group portraits 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 | Great Britain.--Army.--Regiment of Foot, 57th (West Middlesex)--People--1850-1860. Crimean War, 1853-1856--Military personnel--British. Military officers--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860. Bell tents--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,737 × 4,657 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222476 |
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