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South Front of the Kremlin from the Old Bridge

Roger Fenton British
1852
Not on view
The engineer Charles Blacker Vignoles invited his friend Fenton to photograph a suspension bridge that Vignoles was building for Czar Nicholas I across the Dnieper River near Kiev. With little experience but with obvious proficiency in Gustave Le Gray's waxed-paper-negative process, Fenton saw no reason to limit himself to that appointed task. When he returned to London in late November, his portfolio was filled with photographs of the landmarks of Kiev, Saint Petersburg, and Moscow–the first photographs of Russia seen by the British public.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: South Front of the Kremlin from the Old Bridge
  • Artist: Roger Fenton (British, 1819–1869)
  • Date: 1852
  • Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
  • Dimensions: Image: 17.7 × 21.1 cm (6 15/16 × 8 5/16 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Harriette and Noel Levine Gift, 2005
  • Object Number: 2005.100.348
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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