Lord Burghersh, Earl of Westmorland (1855): Art, History and Details

Lord Burghersh, Earl of Westmorland (1855) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Roger Fenton (British, 1819–1869).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

In 1855 Fenton traveled to the Crimea, a peninsula on the Black Sea in Eastern Europe, as part of a commercial venture to produce and publish photographs of the Crimean War. In this conflict, French, British, and Turkish troops were fighting against the Russian military. Lord Burghersh (1784–1859), a British soldier and diplomat, traveled to the Crimea in his role as ambassador to Austria; he was involved in negotiations with the Turkish government over the war.

Object facts

• Title: Lord Burghersh, Earl of Westmorland
• Date: 1855
• Creator attribution: Roger Fenton (British, 1819–1869)
• Culture: England
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: salted paper print
• Dimensions: Image: 18.3 x 15.2 cm (7 3/16 x 6 in.); Paper: 59.6 x 44 cm (23 7/16 x 17 5/16 in.)
• Collection: PH - British 19th Century
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 2021.205

A detail from the museum

Roger Fenton was one of the pioneers of war photography.

Collection credit

Gift of William and Margaret Lipscomb

View the collection record

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