Oct 31, 2024 - Sale 2684

Sale 2684 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
ROGER FENTON (1819-1869)
St. Mary's, Cheltenham * Pittville Spa, Cheltenham. 1852.
Together, 2 photographs. Salt prints, the images measuring 7½x8¾ inches (19.1x22.2 cm.), both with Fenton's credit and caption in the negative, and the first with the notation "waxed paper negative, Mr. Fenton, 1852" in pencil and the second with the notation "CG" also in pencil, on verso.

Provenance
Robert Murray, who is said to have supplied equipment and chemicals to William Henry Fox Talbot, Nicolaas Henneman, and other British photographers in the 1840s and 1850s; by descent;
to a California Collection