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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Interior of the (Russian) Barrack Battery, Showing Mantelets
    James Robertson. Interior of the (Russian) Barrack Battery, Showing Mantelets, 1855. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00007397

    Interior of the (Russian) Barrack Battery, Showing Mantelets

    by James Robertson

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Printed recto, on mount, lower left, below image, in black ink: "Deposé."; recto, on mount, along bottom edge, in black ink: "Photographed by R. Fenton. Manchester, Published by T. Agnew & Sons, March 25th 1856. / London, P. & D. Colnaghi H[?] Paris, Moulin, 23, Rue Richer. New York, Williams H[?]"; inscribed recto, on mount, lower right, in graphite: "27"; unmarked verso

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    James Robertson / Scottish, active c.1850 / Associate: Roger Fenton / English, 1819 - 1869
    Date
    1855
    Medium
    Salted paper print, from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)
    Dimensions
    Image/paper: 23.3 × 27.8 cm (9 3/16 × 11 in.); Mount: 42.5 × 58.9 cm (16 3/4 × 23 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Photograph
    Classification
    salted paper print
    Style
    19th century
    Place
    Scotland
    Department
    Photography and Media
    Credit line
    Hugh Edwards Photography and Media Purchase Fund
    Accession no.
    1969.453

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