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

JABEZ HUGHES (1819-84)

General Sir Richard Chambre Hayes Taylor (1819-1904)

1883 copy after 1854-6 original

Carbon print | 18.8 x 13.2 cm (image) | RCIN 2500058

Photograph of General Sir Richard Chambre Hayes Taylor standing facing slightly left. He is wearing checked trousers and a long coat and is holding a walking stick in his right hand. This photograph, printed by Jabez Hughes in 1883, is a carbon print pasted over the original photograph.

General Taylor served in the Crimean War and was later the Governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
  • Creator(s)

    Jabez Hughes (1819-84) (printer)

    Unknown Person (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Army-GB
    General Sir Richard Chambre Hayes Taylor (1819-1904)
    Army-GB-Infantry-79th Regiment of Foot (Cameron Highlanders) (1804-1873)
  • 18.8 x 13.2 cm (image)

    29.6 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)

  • Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Chambre Hayes Taylor, GCB, unattached, served with the 79th Highlanders, 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)
    • Science, Medicine and Technology
      • Industries, Crafts and Trades
        • Travel Goods
          • Walking sticks
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs