Roger Fenton, Lord Burghersh, Earl of Westmorland
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William and Margaret Lipscomb, 2021.205 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Roger Fenton

Lord Burghersh, Earl of Westmorland

1855

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
18.3 × 15.2 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-194939

In 1855 Fenton traveled to the Crimea, a peninsula on the Black Sea in Eastern Europe, as part of a commercial venture to produce and publish photographs of the Crimean War. In this conflict, French, British, and Turkish troops were fighting against the Russian military. Lord Burghersh (1784–1859), a British soldier and diplomat, traveled to the Crimea in his role as ambassador to Austria; he was involved in negotiations with the Turkish government over the war.

Provenance

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William and Margaret Lipscomb, 2021.205

Registry history

  • 1855 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — photographs

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