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The Sanitary Commission by Roger Fenton — VisualArtsDB

The Sanitary Commission

The Sanitary Commission

1855

Medium: Salted paper print, plate 9 from the album "Photographs Taken in the Crimea" (1856)
Dimensions: Image/paper: 18.9 × 15.9 cm (7 1/2 × 6 5/16 in.); Mount: 58.9 × 42.5 cm (23 1/4 × 16 3/4 in.)
Genre: salted paper print
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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19th centuryphotographyCrimea 1856photographphotographic processCollected by Hugh Edwardssalted paper printpaper (fiber product)

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