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ROGER FENTON

Photographic Views taken in the Crimea by Roger Fenton, Esqre., Manchester: T. Agnew & Sons, London: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Paris: Moulin, New York: Williams & Co., 1855-56

Sixty-one salt prints, including two groups of three and eleven prints mounted individually but forming two panoramas, sizes from approx. 5 x 10¼ in. to 11½ x 14¼ in., mounted one-per-page, printed title, date, photographer's and publishers' credits on mounts, printed frontispiece dedication To Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria This Series of Landscapes and Views, Photographed in the Crimea during the Spring and Summer of 1855 By Roger Fenton Esq., is most respectfully dedicated By Her Majesty's most grateful subjects and servants Thomas Agnew & Sons, key to panorama pasted in, paper guards, half red morocco, titled in gilt, g.e., large folio.
Literature
Gernsheim, The History of Photography, pp. 267-270, no. 140 (illus.); Newhall, The History of Photography, pp. 86-87 (illus.); Hannavy, Roger Fenton of Crimble Hall, pp. 44-64, pl. nos. 16-19; Lloyd, Roger Fenton, pp. 14-16, cat. 50, 51, 53, 54, 57, 58, 60 (illus.)

Lot Essay

This volume comprises forty-seven individual views including a good series of studies at Balaclava, "The Valley of the Shadow of Death", "A Quiet Day in the Mortar Battery", "The Cemetery, Cathcart's Hill", and views of the various camps of 4th Light Dragoons, 4th Dragoon Guards, horse artillery and cavalry. Three further views bringing the total to the fifty which were offered under the title Scenery, Views of the Camps, &c. are of the Valley of Inkermann and form a panorama. In addition the eleven photographs forming the complete panorama of the Plateau of Sebastopol are included, with their key. This group of sixty-one photographs has, unusually for this series, been bound together in one volume.

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