They represented the first opportunity for the photographic world to assess his work and some were keenly contested including this 91/2in x 101/2in (24 x 27cm) print (above) of his mobile photographic van, modelled on the example used in the Crimea by Roger Fenton, which was bid to £40,000.
The Craven collection of photographs
UK: OVER half the images in the Craven collection of photographs offered by Bearne’s in Exeter on May 6 were by William, 2nd Earl of Craven.