Encampment of Horse Artillery – Historic 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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A window into the past: Encampment of Horse Artillery, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Encampment of Horse Artillery
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Taken near Balaklava in the Crimea, this view shows an encampment of the Royal Horse Artillery, the mounted gunners whose light batteries could move quickly enough to keep pace with cavalry. Roger Fenton made it in 1855, during the months he spent photographing the British army in the Crimean War, one of the earliest conflicts to be documented extensively with a camera. The salted paper print shows men and horses at rest between duties, a quieter side of a campaign that Fenton's pictures from this trip, widely reproduced since, helped establish in the public mind.
| 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 | 4,647 × 3,742 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222461 |
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