About this artwork
The Crimean War was remarkable for the public attention focused upon it. Fenton went out to the Crimea in February 1855, funded by the publisher Thomas Agnew but under royal patronage. His view of the soldiers and the landscape presents the character of the war rather than its heroism. His portrait of Colin Campbell is a picture of a man etched with fatigue and anxiety. On 9 April 1855, Fenton wrote of him: "Sir Colin Campbell I have not yet got; he is up at four every morning and either writing and not to be disturbed, or scampering about".
Updated before 2020
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artist:Roger Fenton (1819 - 1869) British
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title:Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, 1792 - 1863. Field-Marshal
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date created:1855
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materials:Salt print from a collodion negative
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measurements:23.00 x 18.80 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased with Art Fund support, 1999
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accession number:PGP 237.7
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Roger Fenton
Roger Fenton
Roger Fenton was one of the finest photographers of his day working with landscape and architecture. Having been impressed by the work of 'the first real photographic organisation', the Société Héliographique in France, he became one of the founders of the Photographic Society of London in 1853. In...