LOT DETAILS
Materials:
salt print
Measurements:
10.75 in. (27.30 cm.) (height) by 14.37 in. (36.50 cm.) (width)
Markings:
the title, number 'No. 278,' and photographer's and publisher's credits in letterpress and with a Newberry Library stamp on the mount
Condition:
on the original oblong folio mount, matted
Literature:
Jill Quasha, The Quillan Collection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Photographs (New York, 1991), pl. 22 (this print) Other prints of this image: Gordon Baldwin, Malcolm Daniel, Sarah Greenough, et al., All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 21. Sarah Greenough, Joel Snyder, David Travis, and Colin Westerbeck, On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography (National Gallery of Art, Washington, and The Art Institute of Chicago, 1989, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 112 Gordon Baldwin, Roger Fenton: Pasha and Bayadère (Los Angeles: Getty Museum of Art, 1996), fig. 3. John Hannavy, Roger Fenton of Crimble Hall (Boston, 1975), pl. 16. Roger Fenton (Aperture Masters of Photography, 1987), p. 75. Roger Fenton, Photographer of the 1850s (London: Hayward Gallery, 1988, in conjunction with the exhibition), cat. 58. John Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 43. Gordon Baldwin, Weston Naef, Katherine Ware, et al., Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Photographs (Los Angeles: Getty Museum of Art, 1999), pl. 6. A Book of Photographs from the Collection of Sam Wagstaff (New York, 1978, in conjunction with the exhibition originating at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.), p. 21. Photography: the first eighty years (London, 1976, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 47. Robin Kelsey, Archive Style: Photographs & Illustrations for U. S. Surveys, 1850 - 1890 (Berkeley, 2007), fig. 34, p. 86.
Provenance:
The Newberry Library, Chicago (an album of Crimean War views). Sotheby's New York, 26 April 1990, Sale 6004, Lot 10. Acquired from the above by Hans P. Kraus, Jr., New York. This plate acquired by the Quillan Company from the above, 1990.