ROGER FENTON (1819-1869)

West Porch, Lichfield, 1858, printed early 1860s

Details

ROGER FENTON (1819-1869)
West Porch, Lichfield, 1858, printed early 1860s
albumen print
initialed in ink (mount, recto)
image 16½ x 13¾in. (42 x 35cm.)
mount 26½ x 21½in. (67 x 54.5cm.)

Provenance

Private collection, London.

Literature

Compare the Fenton print illustrated: Daniel, Baldwin and Greenough, with Pare, Roberts and Taylor, All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, pl. 53.

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Lot Essay

This print, characterised by a deeper tonality and greater contrast than those made by Fenton himself, is from the series printed and published in limited numbers by Francis Frith in the early 1860s shortly after Fenton had abandoned photography.

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