Roger Fenton

British, 1819 - 1869

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Roger Fenton, Derwentwater, c. 1860, albumen print, Robert B. Menschel Fund, 1997.97.2

Derwentwater

Roger Fenton · c. 1860 · albumen print ·  Accession ID  1997.97.2

Grapes and flowers arranged on a tabletop in front of a dark background fill this horizontal photograph. The image is monochromatic like a black and white photograph but is printed in warm tones of golden and dark browns. The tabletop runs parallel and close to the bottom edge of the composition. It seems to be made of marble and a striped cloth folds over the front edge of the table to our left. Dark grapes are bunched around a vase at the middle of the composition. The vase's tall oval body and long, tapering neck are painted with decorative scrolls and curlicues. A few pieces of small round fruit, perhaps plums, rest on the table in front of the vase. A gleaming goblet to the left and a small figurine of a young boy with a sheaf of wheat to our right are almost lost in the profusion of roses, lilies, hyacinth, and other flowers that fill the space around and behind the objects. The top corners of the photograph are curved, creating a shallow arch.
Roger Fenton, Fruit and Flowers, 1860, albumen print, Paul Mellon Fund, 2005.52.4

Fruit and Flowers

Roger Fenton · 1860 · albumen print ·  Accession ID  2005.52.4

Francis Frith, Francis Frith, Francis Bedford, Alfred Rosling, Robert Eaton, Meatyard, Roger Fenton, Gems of Photographic Art, 1860s, bound volume of 20 albumen prints, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro, 2008.118.1

Gems of Photographic Art

Francis Frith, Francis Frith, Francis Bedford, Alfred Rosling, Robert Eaton, Meatyard, Roger Fenton · 1860s · bound volume of 20 albumen prints ·  Accession ID  2008.118.1

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Chatsworth House

Roger Fenton, Francis Frith · 1860s · albumen print ·  Accession ID  2008.118.1.12

Roger Fenton, Lichfield Cathedral from the North-West, 1858, albumen print, Paul Mellon Fund, 2005.52.2

Lichfield Cathedral from the North-West

Roger Fenton · 1858 · albumen print ·  Accession ID  2005.52.2

Roger Fenton, Hampton Court on Thames, 1857, photo-galvanograph, Gift of Patrick Montgomery, 2023.151.1

Hampton Court on Thames

Roger Fenton · 1857 · photo-galvanograph ·  Accession ID  2023.151.1

Roger Fenton, "A Girl Reading. Pietro Magni, Sculptor", c. 1862, stereoscopic albumen prints, Gift of Suzanne Glover Lindsay, 2006.78.1

"A Girl Reading. Pietro Magni, Sculptor"

Roger Fenton · c. 1862 · stereoscopic albumen prints ·  Accession ID  2006.78.1

Roger Fenton, Paul Pretsch, Porch of St. Laurent's Church, Nuremberg, 1856, photogravure, Gift of Mark Katzman and Hilary Skirboll, 2025.15.3

Porch of St. Laurent's Church, Nuremberg

Roger Fenton, Paul Pretsch · 1856 · photogravure ·  Accession ID  2025.15.3

Roger Fenton, Cemetery, Cathcart's Hill, 1855, printed 1856, salted paper print, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1995.36.81

Cemetery, Cathcart's Hill

Roger Fenton · 1855, printed 1856 · salted paper print ·  Accession ID  1995.36.81

Roger Fenton, Captain Graham and Captain MacLeod, 42nd Regiment, 1855, printed 1856, salted paper print, Robert B. Menschel Fund, 1998.55.1

Captain Graham and Captain MacLeod, 42nd Regiment

Roger Fenton · 1855, printed 1856 · salted paper print ·  Accession ID  1998.55.1