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Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
JAMES ROBERTSON (1813-88)
Cemetery
1855-1856Salted paper print | 22.3 x 28.3 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500775
Photograph of a British cemetery near Sevastopol. Gravestones, of different shapes and sizes, are arranged in rows with an obelisk memorial at the centre. Behind the graves there is a stone wall with a tall flagpole at the corner to the right. There are cracking marks on the photograph where the negative was damaged.
Before they left the Crimea in 1856 the British created a number of cemeteries where regiments had camped during the Siege of Sevastopol.
Creator(s)
James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Army-GB-Infantry-57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot (1782-1881)(m w 77th Foot)Army-GB-Infantry-38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot (1783-1881)Strangeways, Thomas Fox, Brig-Gen. (d.1854,Crimea)Army-GB-Artillery-Royal Regiment of ArtilleryArmy-GB-Infantry-Rifle Brigade (1816-1862)Townsend, Samuel Philip, Major (d.1854, Crimea)Captain Anthony Oldfield (d. 1855)Capt Armine Dew (d 1854, Crimea)Captain Spencer Philip John Childers (1829-54)Captain Alexander Gordon (d. 1855)Snow, Edward Geary, Capt. (d.1855, Crimea)Luce, Edward, 1st Lt., Royal Artillery (d.1855)Walsham, Arthur, Lt. (d.1854, Crimea)Mitchell, Rodney Ashbrook, Lt. (d.1855, Crimea)G Yellon (d. 1855)Tryon, Henry, Lt. (d.1854, Crimea)Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Shadforth (d. 1855)Thomas Leigh Goldie (d. 1854)Major-General Sir John Campbell of Ava, 2nd Baronet (1807-55)22.3 x 28.3 cm (image) (image)
31.7 x 37.4 cm (mount)
Cemetery [title on contents list]. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson].
- From the collection of Queen Victoria
Subject(s)
- Social sciences
- Military affairs
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Wars
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Wars
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Military affairs
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Town planning, landscapes and gardens
- Cemeteries
- Architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Funerary architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Town planning, landscapes and gardens
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Social sciences
