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Roger Fenton — Cemetery, Cathcart's Hill
Roger Fenton

Cemetery, Cathcart's Hill

1855

Makeshift graves on this windswept hill serve as a sobering reminder of the war's human cost, documented with unprecedented photographic directness.

Medium
Salted paper print, from the album "Photographic Pictures of the Seat of War in the Crimea" (1856)

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Roger Fenton, Cemetery, Cathcart's Hill, 1855

Makeshift graves on this windswept hill serve as a sobering reminder of the war's human cost, documented with unprecedented photographic directness.

Medium
Salted paper print, from the album "Photographic Pictures of the Seat of War in the Crimea" (1856)
Year
1855
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Related themes

Monochrome, Serene, Ruins, Documentary, 19th Century, Photograph, Landscape, Historical, British, War

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Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art