Lieut.-General Sir John Lysaght Pennefather – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Lieut.-General Sir John Lysaght Pennefather in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Lieut.-General Sir John Lysaght Pennefather
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Few of Roger Fenton's Crimean portraits show a senior British commander as plainly as this one shows Lieutenant-General Sir John Lysaght Pennefather, an officer who served in the Crimea during the war of 1853 to 1856. Fenton arrived there in 1855 with a large mobile darkroom and photographed officers, soldiers, and the camp around Sevastopol. This print is a salted paper print, a process that was still common in the mid-1850s before albumen and collodion prints became dominant. Its sober, direct pose reflects the formal conventions of military portraiture of the period.
| Created / published | [1855] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : salted paper ; 21 x 17 cm. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 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. 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. 72. |
| Subjects | Pennefather, John L. (John Lysaght),--Sir,--1800-1872--Military service. Crimean War, 1853-1856--Military personnel--British. Generals--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,672 × 4,531 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222684 |
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