Moscow, Domes of Churches in the Kremlin

1852

Roger Fenton

Artist, British, 1819 - 1869

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    salted paper print

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.2 x 21.2 cm (7 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
    mat: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
    framed: 61 x 71.1 cm (24 x 28 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.52.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The photographer; by descent from his brother; (Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc., New York); NGA purchase, 2005.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2007

  • Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2007 - 2008, no. 80.

2015

  • In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015

2019

  • The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

On mount, by Roger Fenton, lower center in graphite: Domes of cathedrals in the Kremlin; by later hand, bottom center in graphite: F306; bottom right in graphite: 22; by Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc., lower left verso in graphite: 300602.94

Wikidata ID

Q64169885

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