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

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Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Boyle (1809-54)  

1854

Hand-coloured albumen print | 18.7 x 13.9 cm (image) | RCIN 2500051

Photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel Boyle seated in an armchair facing left. He is wearing civilian clothes and is holding a walking stick. His face has been hand-coloured.

Lieutenant-Colonel Boyle died of cholera on the journey to the Crimea in 1854.
  • Creator(s)

    Unknown Person (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Robert Boyle (1809-54)
    Army-GB-Infantry-Coldstream Guards (1819-)
    Army-GB
  • 18.7 x 13.9 cm (image)

    29.6 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)

  • Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon R Boyle, Coldstream Guards, c.1854 [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