A Zouave, Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph

Roger Fenton, full-length portrait, dressed in a Zouave uniform, seated, facing front, holding rifle.

Attribution based on information from: Gernsheim, Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crimean War: His photographs and his letters from the Crimea, with an essay on his life, p. vii.

Title transcribed from verso.

"Roger Fenton" written in pencil on verso.

Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944.

Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crimean War: His photographs and his letters from the Crimea, with an essay on his life and work / Helmut and Alison Gernsheim. London : Secker & Warburg, 1954, no. 1 (variant).

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01/01/1855

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/item/2001697284/

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