id: 155585 accession number: 1990.33 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.33 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:10.121000 The Miners' Bridge, on the Llugwy, North Wales, 1857. Roger Fenton (British, 1819–1869). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 36.7 x 42.9 cm (14 7/16 x 16 7/8 in.); matted: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1990.33 title: The Miners' Bridge, on the Llugwy, North Wales title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1857 creation date earliest: 1857 creation date latest: 1857 current location: creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: England, 19th century technique: albumen print from wet collodion negative department: Photography collection: Photography type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Roger Fenton (British, 1819–1869) - artist Roger Fenton British, 1819-1869 Despite the relative brevity of his career, Roger Fenton stands among the most important and accomplished British photographers. Born in Heywood, Lancashire, to a wealthy family, Fenton graduated from University College in London and in 1844 may have studied painting in the Paris studio of Paul Delaroche, along with several other important future photographers. After returning to England, he spent four years earning a degree as a solicitor, continued to paint, and developed an interest in photography before joining a London law firm in 1851. Fenton's paintings were shown annually in London at the Royal Academy from 1849–51. After helping to found the Calotype Club (1847), in 1852 he published an article that advocated establishment of a British photographic organization modeled after the Société héliographique in France. His argument, combined with the lifting of the use restrictions on William Henry Fox Talbot's patent for the calotype, led to formation of the London Photographic Society; Fenton served as its first honorary secretary. In December 1852, an early exhibition of the new society included 39 of his views. Soon afterward, he accompanied his friend Charles Vignoles to Russia to photograph the construction of a bridge at Kiev. Traveling to the Crimea in 1855, Fenton was the first photographer to make a sustained sequence of war views. He also accepted commissions to document the collections of the British Museum and to photograph the royal family at Buckingham and Windsor castles. Among Fenton's best work are his photographs of landscapes and architecture. His still lifes are exceptional. His views -- whether of great expanses of garden and lawn, of Balaklava, or of fishermen at a local stream -- have an artistic consistency, grandeur of vision, and command of technique comparable only to the work of Édouard Baldus in France and Carleton E. Watkins in America. In 1862, judging the quality of photography to have declined, Fenton sold all his equipment at auction and returned to the law. His negatives were bought by Francis Frith, whose publishing concern continued to print them in various formats for the next hundred years. T.W.F. --- measurements: Image: 36.7 x 42.9 cm (14 7/16 x 16 7/8 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "BOB MINERS" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Notable Acquisitions opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Notable Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991). title: Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1996-11-24T05:00:00 Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997). title: Pioneers of Landscape Photography from the Museum's Collection opening date: 2000-08-12T00:00:00 Pioneers of Landscape Photography from the Museum's Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 12, 2000-January 3, 2001). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Arts Council of Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, Feb. 10- April 17, 1983: "Landscape in Britain: 1850-1950," Exhibition catalogue p. 61. (Also exhibited at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, April 30 - June 4, 1983; Stoke-on-Trent City Museum & Art Gallery, June 11 - July 16, 1983; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, July 23 - Aug. 28, 1983.)', 'opening_date': '1983-02-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, June 7 - Sept. 15, 1991: "Notable Acquisitions," CMA Bulletin, 78 (June 1991), p. 93, repr. p. 93.', 'opening_date': '1991-06-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art," see Catalogue of Photography, pp. 22-23.', 'opening_date': '1997-02-02T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; August 12, 2000 - January 3, 2001. "Pioneers of Landscape Photography from the Museum\'s Collection."', 'opening_date': '2000-08-12T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Hinson, Tom E. "Notable Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 93 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161319 Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 22-23, 155 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.33/1990.33_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.33/1990.33_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.33/1990.33_full.tif