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AT-00006953The Smolnoi Monastery
by Roger Fenton
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, on mount, along bottom edge, below image, in graphite: "The Smolnoi Monastery, from Okta [?], near St Petersburg."; unmarked verso
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "The Human Environment," October 13, 2021-January 2, 2022. (Gallery 10, Carl Fuldner)
Publications
"Roger Fenton: Photographer of the 1850s." Catalogue from an exhibition organised by Lynne Green and Muriel Walker held at the Hayward Gallery, London. Catalogue produced by Yale University Press, London for the South Bank Board, 1988. (date estimation from Chronology, pp. 173-177) Matthew S. Witkovsky et al., "The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media," eds. Antawan I. Byrd, Elizabeth Siegel, and Carl Fuldner, pl. 69, p. 91 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2023).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Roger Fenton / English, 1819–1869
- Date
- 1851-52
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 17.1 × 21.5 cm (6 3/4 × 8 1/2 in.); Mount: 43.4 × 55 cm (17 1/8 × 21 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- salted paper print
- Style
- 19th century
- Place
- England
- Department
- Photography and Media
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Leigh B. Block
- Accession no.
- 1982.1407
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