Distant View of Sebastopol with the Lines of Gordon's Battery

Distant View of Sebastopol with the Lines of Gordon's Battery

Photograph

Roger Fenton

Maker
English, 1819–1869

Distant View of Sebastopol with the Lines of Gordon's Battery

1855
Salted paper print
Image: 9 1/4 × 13 in. (23.5 × 33 cm)
Mount: 15 3/8 × 19 in. (39 × 48.2 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Alden Scott Boyer
1981.1238.0029
Inscriptions Printed on mount on recto, BR: Distant View of Sebastopol, with the Lines of Gordon's Battery.
Printed on mount on recto, LB: Deposé.
Printed on mount on recto, BC: Photographed by R. Fenton. Manchester, Published by T. Agnew & Sons, April 5th 1856. \ London, P.&D. Colnaghi & Co. Paris, Moulin, 23, Rue Richer. New York, Williams & Co.
Inscribed in pencil on recto, BRC: B
Blind stamp on mount on recto, BC: AGNEW & SON [cropped]
Stamped in blue on mount on verso, BLC: EASTMAN HISTORICAL \ PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BLC: 39
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