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Roger Fenton — Officers on the Look out at Cathcarts Hill
Roger Fenton

Officers on the Look out at Cathcarts Hill

1855

Staged on the hillside observation post, this group portrait combines portraiture with topographical documentation, showing how officers monitored enemy positions.

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

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