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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.89
People
Roger Fenton, British (Heywood, Lancashire, England 1819 - 1869 London, England)
Title
Untitled (head of a barbarian captive in the collection of the British Museum)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1853-1859
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/282824

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Salted paper print
Dimensions
34.8 × 29 cm (13 11/16 × 11 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Hans Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs, New York], sold; to Marjorie B. and Martin Cohn, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Marjorie B. and Martin Cohn in honor of Joan R. Mertens
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.89
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Reproduction/Production, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/29/2005 - 04/10/2005
  • Around Antique: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs (Teaching Gallery) S421, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/14/2010 - 09/04/2010

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