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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 | 23.1 x 30.5 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500776
Photograph of a British cemetery near Sevastopol. The gravestones, of different shapes and sizes, are arranged in loose rows and surrounded by rocks of varying sizes. Behind the graves there is a stone wall with a flagpole to the right.
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-20th (The East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot (1783-1881)Army-GB-Infantry-68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) (1782-1881)Army-GB-Infantry-85th (Bucks Volunteers) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) (1808-1921)Stone, Richard John Thorley, Lt. (d.1854/5, Crimea)Swyny, Exham Schomberg Turner, Lt-Col. (d.1854, Crimea)Twysden, Heneage Thomas, Ens. (d.1854/5, Crimea)Lieutenant Frederick Parr (d. 1855)Wynne, Heneage Griffith, Major (d.1854, Crimea)Dowling, William Henry, Lt. (d.1854, Crimea)Harrison, Gustavus Nicolls, Bt.Major (d.1855, Crimea)Curtois, George Charles Widdrington, Lt. (d.1855, Crimea)J Hulton Clutterbuck (d. 1854)Army-GB-Infantry-55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot (1783-1881)Army-GB-Infantry-63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot (1782-1881)23.1 x 30.5 cm (image) (image)
31.7 x 37.3 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
