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Roger Fenton

The Town of Balaklava

1855
Salted paper print, from the album "Photographic Pictures of the Seat of War in the Crimea" (1856)
27.2 × 35.8 cm (10.7 × 14.1 in)

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In the collection of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · as of July 2026

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