Moscow, Domes of Churches in the Kremlin, 1852

Not on View

Medium

salted paper print

Dimensions

image: 18.2 x 21.2 cm (7 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
mat: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)

framed: 61 x 71.1 cm (24 x 28 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Accession Number

2005.52.1

Artists / Makers

Roger Fenton (artist) British, 1819 - 1869

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .

Inscription

On mount, by Roger Fenton, lower center in graphite: Domes of cathedrals in the Kremlin; by later hand, bottom center in graphite: F306; bottom right in graphite: 22; by Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc., lower left verso in graphite: 300602.94

Provenance

The photographer; by descent from his brother; (Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc., New York); NGA purchase, 2005.

Associated Names

Kraus, Jr., Inc., Hans P.

Exhibition History

2007: Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2007 - 2008, no. 80.

2015: In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015

2019: The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.