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AFTER ROGER FENTON (1819-69)

'J. Macdonald'

1889 copy of an original of 8 Feb 1854

Carbon print | 19.1 x 15.9 cm (image) | RCIN 2906509

Photograph of a full length portrait of John MacDonald (d.1860), a jager at Windsor Castle. He is posed kneeling down, holding a rifle in his left hand. There are dead rabbits and grouse  laid in front of him and he holds one of the grouse in his right hand.

  • Creator(s)

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    After Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)

    Gustav William Henry Mullins (1854-1921) (photographer)

  • J. Madconald. Jager-/ Windsor Castle- Feb: 8. 1854./ by Do.

    Reproduced & Printed in carbon by Mullins 1889

  • 19.1 x 15.9 cm (image)

    28.2 x 22.9 cm (page dimensions)

  • J. MacDonald, Jäger, Windsor Castle, Feb 8th 1854 [Photographic Portraits. Vol 1/59 (1853-1857)]

  • Commissioned by Queen Victoria in 1854

  • Subject(s)
    • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
      • Architecture
        • Architectural design
          • Interiors
    • Science, Medicine and Technology
      • Engineering & Technology
        • Military engineering
          • Arms (weapons)
            • Firearms
              • Rifles
      • Agriculture and related techniques
        • Animal husbandry
          • Field sports (hunting, shooting, stalking)
            • Game birds
    • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
      • Zoology
        • Animals
          • Mammals
            • Rabbits
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