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ROGER FENTON (1819-69)

Group of Croats

Mar 1855

Salted paper print | 15.7 x 16.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2500378

Photograph of eight Croat labourers gathered in a group. Five are sitting in a row on the ground with the man sitting second from the left facing right smoking a long pipe. Two stand and another kneels behind them. They are wearing a mix of open jackets and fur coats and all are wearing headscarves. Behind them is a wooden hut partially covered by a cloth sheet.

  • Creator(s)

    Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Croats

  • 15.7 x 16.8 cm (image)

    57.3 x 44.6 cm (page dimensions)

  • Group of croats

  • Subject(s)
    • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
      • Architecture
        • Buildings
    • People
    • Social sciences
      • Military affairs
        • Wars, Campaigns & Battles
          • Wars
            • Wars of the nineteenth century
              • Crimean War (1853-1856)
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
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