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Title:[Landscape with Clouds]
Artist:Roger Fenton (British, 1819–1869)
Date:probably 1856
Medium:Salted paper print from glass negative
Dimensions:25 x 43.6 cm (9 13/16 x 17 3/16 in.)
Classification:Photographs
Credit Line:The Rubel Collection, Promised Gift of William Rubel
Object Number:L.1997.84.5
Roger Fenton's "grey albums"; (sold, Christie's, South Kensington, June 27, 1978, lot 344); [Sean Thackrey, San Francisco]; William Rubel, California
Achenbach Graphic Arts Council. "Masterworks of Photography from the Rubel Collection," January 1, 1984–February 1, 1984.
Hayward Gallery. "Roger Fenton, Photographer of the 1850s," February 4, 1988–April 17, 1988.
City Museum and Art Gallery. "Roger Fenton, Photographer of the 1850s," April 23, 1988–May 29, 1988.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "The Art of Photography 1839-1989," February 11, 1989–April 30, 1989.
Canberra. National Gallery of Australia. "The Art of Photography 1839-1989," June 17, 1989–August 27, 1989.
London. Royal Academy of Arts. "The Art of Photography 1839-1989," September 23, 1989–December 23, 1989.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Inventing a New Art: Early Photographs from the Rubel Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 1–September 19, 1999.
Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. "All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860," October 17, 2004–January 2, 2005.
Los Angeles. J. Paul Getty Museum. "All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860," February 1–April 25, 2005.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860," May 24–August 29, 2005.
London. Tate Britain. "All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860," September 25, 2005–January 2, 2006.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Framing a Century: Master Photographers, 1840–1940," June 3–September 1, 2008.
Thackrey, Sean. Masterworks of Photography from the Rubel Collection. Sacramento: Crocker Art Museum, 1982. pl. 18.
The Met's Department of Photographs houses a collection of more than 75,000 works spanning the history of photography from its invention in the 1830s to the present.