Pasha and Bayadere

Roger Fenton (1819 - 1869)

National Media Museum

1858

Fenton created Pasha and Bayadere in 1858 as part of a series of photographs inspired by his recent expedition to photograph the Crimean War. It is an important and beautiful expression of an orientalist theme in British art of the nineteenth century and reflects the Victorian fascination with the ‘exotic' east. Fenton himself appears as the ‘Pasha' and the musician is the English landscape painter, Frank Dillon, who originally owned the print.

• Medium: albumen silver print
• Dimensions: 42 x 38cm
• Art Fund Grant: £49000 ( Total: £108,506; Export stopped)
• ArtFunded in: 2010
• Vendor: Clive and Sarah Nicholson

Provenance

Frank Dillon (one of the sitters); by descent.

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