
![FENTON (ROGER) Twelve views of the Crimean War, comprising: Plateau of Sebastopol (5 views, nos. 1, 2, 4, 9, 10); Valley of Inkermann (3 views, nos. 1-3); Harbour of Balaklava. The Cattle Pier; Camp of the 5th Dragoon Guards; A Quiet Day in the Mortar Battery; The Russian Church & Town of Balaklava, Manchester, T. Agnew & Sons, and London, P. & D. Colnaghi, January 1 [-February 29-March 26], 1856 (12) image 1](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%2Flive%2F2019-10%2F23%2F60125512-1-1.jpg&w=2400&q=75)
![FENTON (ROGER) Twelve views of the Crimean War, comprising: Plateau of Sebastopol (5 views, nos. 1, 2, 4, 9, 10); Valley of Inkermann (3 views, nos. 1-3); Harbour of Balaklava. The Cattle Pier; Camp of the 5th Dragoon Guards; A Quiet Day in the Mortar Battery; The Russian Church & Town of Balaklava, Manchester, T. Agnew & Sons, and London, P. & D. Colnaghi, January 1 [-February 29-March 26], 1856 (12) image 2](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%2Flive%2F2019-10%2F23%2F60125512-1-2.jpg&w=2400&q=75)
Lot 77
FENTON (ROGER) Twelve views of the Crimean War, comprising: Plateau of Sebastopol (5 views, nos. 1, 2, 4, 9, 10); Valley of Inkermann (3 views, nos. 1-3); Harbour of Balaklava. The Cattle Pier; Camp of the 5th Dragoon Guards; A Quiet Day in the Mortar Battery; The Russian Church & Town of Balaklava, Manchester, T. Agnew & Sons, and London, P. & D. Colnaghi, January 1 [-February 29-March 26], 1856 (12)
4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,437.50 inc. premium
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FENTON (ROGER)
Twelve views of the Crimean War, comprising: Plateau of Sebastopol (5 views, nos. 1, 2, 4, 9, 10); Valley of Inkermann (3 views, nos. 1-3); Harbour of Balaklava. The Cattle Pier; Camp of the 5th Dragoon Guards; A Quiet Day in the Mortar Battery; The Russian Church & Town of Balaklava, salt prints on paper from glass plate negatives, each captioned with publication details beneath the image on paper mounts, variable tones, stain in sky area of "A quiet day...", some with tears in margins of mounts, images largest 285 x 360mm., smallest 185 x 255mm., sheet size 510 x 645mm., or 430 x 595mm., Manchester, T. Agnew & Sons, and London, P. & D. Colnaghi, January 1 [-February 29-March 26], 1856 (12)
Footnotes
"Roger Fenton's name... will always be linked with the Crimea" (Helmut Gernsheim, The Rise of Photography 1850-1880, 1988), the series of images he took during 1855 of the participants, battlefields, and the environs representing the first large-scale photographic documentation of war. This collection was purchased by the vendor in 1969.