Artist Monograph

Roger Fenton, British

British, 1819–1869

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	16	61.5%
Medium (30–100 cm)	10	38.5%

Range: 6.8 cm → 42.2 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1941	8
1975	1
1977	3
1978	2
1979	1
1986	3
1988	2
1989	1
1990	1
1994	1
2009	2
2016	1

Highlighted Works

probably 1856 [Landscape with Clouds] Salted paper print from glass negative
1858 [Reclining Odalisque] Salted paper print from glass negative

Recurring Subjects & Themes

Men · 16
Wars · 7
Landscapes · 6
Women · 6
Horses · 5
Sculpture · 4
Architecture · 4
Soldiers · 4
Portraits · 4
Buildings · 4
Ships · 3
Rivers · 2
Museums · 2
Ruins · 2
Abbeys · 2
Cathedrals · 2
Still Life · 2
Tents · 2
Waterfalls · 1
Saint John the Baptist · 1

British Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 26 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Peterborough, The West Front Photograph Acc. 363.1978	1850s	Albumen silver print, printed 1864	13 3/8 × 16 9/16" (34 × 42 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Elephantine Moa (Dinornis Elephantopus) Photograph Acc. 83.1988	1854-55	Salted paper print from a glass negative	14 15/16 × 11 15/16" (38 × 30.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Paul F. Walter
Greek Hero Photograph Acc. 40.1989	1854-58	Salted paper print from a wet-collodion glass negative	13 7/16 × 10 3/16" (34.2 × 25.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Robert and Joyce Menschel Fund
Princess Alice as Spring Photograph Acc. 523.2009	1854	Albumen silver print	6 × 4 3/4" (15.3 × 12 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Suzanne Winsberg Collection. Gift of Suzanne Winsberg
A Quiet Day in the Mortar Battery Photograph Acc. 75.1986	1855	Salted paper print from a wet-collodion glass negative	9 11/16 × 13 1/4" (24.6 × 33.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of John C. Waddell
Brigadier General Van Straubenzee and Officers of the Buffs Photograph Acc. 358.1977	1855	Salted paper print	6 3/4 × 6 7/8" (17.2 × 17.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
General Bosquet and Staff Photograph Acc. 74.1986	1855	Salted paper print from a wet-collodion glass negative	6 3/4 × 6 3/8" (17.1 × 16.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of John C. Waddell
Lichfield Cathedral, Porch of the South Transept Photograph Acc. 189.1975	c. 1855	Albumen silver print from a wet-collodion glass negative	13 7/16 × 16 1/4" (34.2 × 41.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	John Parkinson III Fund
Officers on the Lookout at Cathcart's Hill Photograph Acc. 375.1990	1855	Salted paper print from a glass-plate negative	9 × 13 9/16" (22.8 × 34.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Fund, The Family of Man Fund, and Purchase
Ruins of Glastonbury Abbey Photograph Acc. 76.1986	c. 1855	Albumen silver print from a wet-collodion glass negative	9 1/4 × 11 5/8" (23.7 × 29.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of John C. Waddell
The Valley of the Shadow of Death Photograph Acc. 28.1994	April 23, 1855	Salted paper print from a paper negative	10 7/16 × 13 15/16" (26.5 × 35.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of CameraWorks, Inc.
Group of the 47th in Winter Dress Photograph Acc. 359.1977	1856-57	Albumen silver print	5 3/4 × 6 3/16" (14.6 × 15.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Major General Lockyer and Two of His Staff Photograph Acc. 360.1977	1856	Albumen silver print	6 3/4 × 6 1/4" (17.1 × 16 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Roslin Chapel Photograph Acc. 362.1978	1856	Albumen silver print, printed 1864	13 3/4 × 16 5/8" (34.9 × 42.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	John Parkinson III Fund
September Clouds Photograph Acc. 58.1979	1856-57	Albumen silver print from a wet-collodion glass negative	8 1/16 × 11 3/8" (20.5 × 28.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Shirley C. Burden and Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder
Wharfe, Bolton Woods, Yorkshire Photograph Acc. 459.2016	c. 1856	Albumen silver print	8 1/4 × 10 13/16" (21 × 27.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Robert B. Menschel
Cobham Park Photograph Acc. 611.1941	1857	Albumen silver print from a wet-collodion glass negative	3 1/16 × 2 13/16" (7.8 × 7.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Kirham Abbey Photograph Acc. 612.1941	1857	Albumen silver print from a wet-collodion glass negative	2 13/16 × 2 9/16" (7.2 × 6.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
London, Picadilly Photograph Acc. 613.1941	1857	Albumen silver print from a wet-collodion glass negative	2 3/4 × 2 3/4" (7 × 7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Penshurst Castle Photograph Acc. 614.1941	1857	Albumen silver print from a wet-collodion glass negative	3 × 2 13/16" (7.6 × 7.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Rivaulx Abbey Photograph Acc. 615.1941	1857	Albumen silver print from a wet-collodion glass negative	2 11/16 × 2 9/16" (6.8 × 6.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Roman Portrait Bust, British Museum, London Photograph Acc. 524.2009	c. 1857	Salted paper print	13 11/16 × 9 3/4" (34.7 × 24.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Suzanne Winsberg Collection. Gift of Suzanne Winsberg
Torquay Photograph Acc. 616.1941	1857	Albumen silver print from a wet-collodion glass negative	3 3/16 × 2 13/16" (8.1 × 7.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Untitled Photograph Acc. 618.1941	1857	Albumen silver print from a wet-collodion glass negative	2 3/4 × 2 1/2" (7 × 6.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Wicklow Railway Photograph Acc. 617.1941	1857	Albumen silver print from a wet-collodion glass negative	2 7/8 × 2 3/4" (7.3 × 7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Salisbury Cathedral: The Spire Photograph Acc. 84.1988	c. 1860	Albumen silver print from a glass negative	16 5/16 × 14 1/4" (41.4 × 36.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Paul F. Walter

The Met (CC0 Open Access) — 41 records

Title / Object	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Rights
[Self-Portrait] Photograph	February 1852	Albumen silver print from glass negative	Image: 12.2 x 9 cm (4 13/16 x 3 9/16 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Moscow, Domes of Churches in the Kremlin Photograph Wikidata	1852	Salted paper print from paper negative	Image: 17.9 x 21.6 cm (7 1/16 x 8 1/2 in.) Mount: 43.7 x 60.1 cm (17 3/16 x 23 11/16 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Moscow, the Kremlin in the Distance Photograph	1852	Salted paper print from paper negative	Image: 17.7 x 21.8 cm (6 15/16 x 8 9/16 in.) Mount (2nd): 43.8 x 59.1 cm (17 1/4 x 23 1/4 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
South Front of the Kremlin from the Old Bridge Photograph	1852	Salted paper print from paper negative	Image: 17.7 × 21.1 cm (6 15/16 × 8 5/16 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
[Royal Children in Tableau of the Seasons] Photograph	1854	Albumen silver print from glass negative	15.5 x 16 cm (6 1/8 x 6 5/16 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Rievaulx Abbey Photograph Wikidata	1854	Albumen silver print from glass negative	Image: 35.7 x 29.8 cm (14 1/16 x 11 3/4 in.) Mount: 40.3 x 34.5 cm (15 7/8 x 13 9/16 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Rievaulx Abbey, the High Altar Photograph	1854	Albumen silver print from glass negative	Image: 29.5 x 36.5 cm (11 5/8 x 14 3/8 in.) Mount: 48 x 61.5 cm (18 7/8 x 24 3/16 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Wharfe and Pool, Below the Strid Photograph	1854	Salted paper print	Image: 34.5 x 28.2 cm (13 9/16 x 11 1/8 in.) Mount: 56.8 x 44.9 cm (22 3/8 x 17 11/16 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Captain Burnsby of the Grenadier Guards Photograph	1855	Salted paper print from glass negative	Image: 16.3 x 15.6 cm (6 7/16 x 6 1/8 in.) Mount: 16.1 x 16.1 cm (6 5/16 x 6 5/16 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Cooking House of the 8th Hussars Photograph	1855	Salted paper print from glass negative	Image: 15.9 x 20.2 cm (6 1/4 x 7 15/16 in.) Mount: 43.7 x 59.4 cm (17 3/16 x 23 3/8 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Cossack Bay, Balaklava Photograph	1855	Salted paper print from glass negative	Image: 28.5 x 36.2 cm (11 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.) Mount: 43.2 x 59.7 cm (17 x 23 1/2 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Group at Head Quarters Photograph	1855	Salted paper print from glass negative	Image: 19.2 x 16.4 cm (7 9/16 x 6 7/16 in.) Mount: 57.7 x 40.2 cm (22 11/16 x 15 13/16 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Henry Duberly and Mrs. Duberly Photograph	1855	Salted paper print from glass negative	Image: 15.9 x 15.8 cm (6 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.) Mount: 16 x 15.9 cm (6 5/16 x 6 1/4 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Landing Place, Ordnance Wharf, Balaklava Photograph	1855	Salted paper print from glass negative	Image: 26 x 35.1 cm (10 1/4 x 13 13/16 in.) Mount: 43.2 x 59.4 cm (17 x 23 3/8 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Landing Place, Railway Stores, Balaklava Photograph Wikidata	1855	Salted paper print from glass negative	Image: 27.9 x 36.4 cm (11 x 14 5/16 in.) Mount: 43.5 x 58.9 cm (17 1/8 x 23 3/16 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Lieutenant General Sir J. L. Pennefather and Staff Photograph	1855	Salted paper print from glass negative	Image: 14.4 x 20.8 cm (5 11/16 x 8 3/16 in.) Mount: 40.2 x 57.8 cm (15 13/16 x 22 3/4 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Major General A. H. King Photograph	1855	Salted paper print from glass negative	Image: 17.8 x 14.7 cm (7 x 5 13/16 in.) Mount: 18.3 x 15 cm (7 3/16 x 5 7/8 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Omar Pasha Photograph	1855	Salted paper print from glass negative	Image: 17.9 x 13.4 cm (7 1/16 x 5 1/4 in.) Mount: 59.3 x 42.3 cm (23 3/8 x 16 5/8 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Sebastopol from Cathcart's Hill Photograph Wikidata	1855	Salted paper print from glass negative	Image: 21.9 x 34.7 cm (8 5/8 x 13 11/16 in.) Mount: 41.7 x 57.2 cm (16 7/16 x 22 1/2 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
The Council of War on the Morning of the Taking of the Mamelon. Lord Raglan, Omar Pasha, Marshal Pélissier Photograph	1855	Albumen silver print from glass negative		Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
The Genoese Castle, Balaklava Photograph	1855	Salted paper print from glass negative	Image: 27.4 x 34.8 cm (10 13/16 x 13 11/16 in.) Mount: 43.5 x 59.8 cm (17 1/8 x 23 9/16 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
The Mamelon and Malakoff from front of Mortar Battery Photograph	April, 1855	Salted paper print from glass negative	Image: 9 1/8 × 13 1/2 in. (23.1 × 34.3 cm) Sheet: 14 3/4 × 17 13/16 in. (37.5 × 45.3 cm)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
[Landscape with Clouds] Photograph Wikidata	probably 1856	Salted paper print from glass negative	Image: 31.4 x 44.3 cm (12 3/8 x 17 7/16 in.), irregular	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Roslin Chapel, South Porch Photograph	1856	Salted paper print from glass negative	Image: 35.8 x 43.3 cm (14 1/8 x 17 1/16 in.) Mount: 41 x 48.2 cm (16 1/8 x 19 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Birth of St. John Photograph	1857	Albumen silver print		Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Ely Cathedral, from the Grammar School Photograph	1857	Albumen silver print from glass negative	Image: 35.4 x 44.3 cm (13 15/16 x 17 7/16 in.) Mount: 40.2 x 48.3 cm (15 13/16 x 19 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Falls of the Llugwy, at Pont-y-Pair Photograph Wikidata	1857	Albumen silver print from glass negative	35.8 x 42.9 cm (14 1/16 x 16 7/8 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
[Orientalist Study of a Woman] Photograph	1858	Albumen silver print from glass negative	26.2 x 18.2 cm (10 5/16 x 7 3/16 in.), irregularly trimmed	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
[Reclining Odalisque] Photograph Wikidata	1858	Salted paper print from glass negative	28.5 x 39 cm (11 1/4 x 15 3/8 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Aelius Caesar Photograph	1854–58	Salted paper print from glass negative	36.8 x 29.2 cm (14 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Laughing Satyr Photograph	1854–58	Salted paper print from glass negative	29.7 x 26.6 cm (11 11/16 x 10 1/2 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Salisbury Cathedral – The Nave, from the South Transept Photograph	1858	Albumen silver print from glass negative	30.2 x 31.1 cm (11 7/8 x 12 1/4 in. )	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
[Lady on Horseback] Photograph	1850s	Salted paper print from glass negative	21.3 x 22.9 cm (8 3/8 x 9 in.), irregularly trimmed	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Lambeth Palace Photograph	ca. 1858	Albumen silver print from glass negative	Image: 33.9 x 42.1 cm (13 3/8 x 16 9/16 in.), rounded corners Mount: 38.3 x 45.3 cm (15 1/16 x 17 13/16 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Newcastle on Tyne Photograph	1850s	Albumen silver print from glass negative	11 1/16 x 14 1/4	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
The Lycian Saloon, British Museum Stereograph	1850s	Albumen silver print from glass negative		Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
The Megatherium, British Museum Stereograph	1850s	Albumen silver print from glass negative		Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
The Temple. Collection of Antiquities Stereograph	1850s	Albumen silver print from glass negative		Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Valley of the Ribble and Pendle Hill Photograph	1859	Albumen silver print from glass negative	32.1 x 42.5 cm (12 5/8 x 16 3/4 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
[Still Life with Fruit] Photograph Wikidata	1860	Albumen silver print from glass negative	35.2 x 43.1cm (13 7/8 x 16 15/16in.) Mount: 46.6 x 60.3 cm (18 3/8 x 23 3/4 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata
Chinese Jewel Casket Photograph	1860	Albumen silver print from glass negative	Image: 34.3 x 42.9 cm (13 1/2 x 16 7/8 in.) Mount: 45.5 x 56 cm (17 15/16 x 22 1/16 in.)	Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata