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Record of historical events

Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion

JABEZ HUGHES (1819-84)

Colonel Sir Thomas Montague Steele (1820-90)

1883 copy after 1854-6 original

Carbon print | 18.9 x 14.2 cm (image) | RCIN 2500045

Photograph of Colonel Sir Thomas Montague Steele seated at a table facing partly right. He is wearing a long dark coat with a velvet collar and is holding a book in his left hand. This photograph, printed by Jabez Hughes in 1883, is a carbon print pasted over the original photograph.

Colonel Sir Thomas Montague Steele acted as Military Secretary to Lord Raglan and his successors during the Crimean War.
  • Creator(s)

    Jabez Hughes (1819-84) (printer)

    Unknown Person (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Sir Thomas Montague Steele, General (1820-90)
  • 18.9 x 14.2 cm (image)

    29.6 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)

  • Colonel Thomas Montague Steele, CB, c.1855 [in Crimean Officers' Portraits, 1854 - 1856]

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria

  • Subject(s)
    • Social sciences
      • Military affairs
        • Wars, Campaigns & Battles
          • Wars
            • Wars of the nineteenth century
              • Crimean War (1853-1856)
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs