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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

JAMES ROBERTSON (1813-88)

Memorials, mostly to Royal Engineers

1855-1856

Salted paper print | 23.2 x 29.3 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500769

Photograph of memorials, mostly to officers of the Royal Engineers, in a British cemetery near Sevastopol. The graves are arranged in a row in front of a wall, their inscriptions clearly visible. Before they left the Crimea in 1856 the British created a number of cemeteries on the sites where regiments had camped during the Siege of Sevastopol.
  • Creator(s)

    James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Ranken, George, Major, Royal Engineers (d.1856)
    Lieutenant Colonel Charles Carson Alexander (d 1854)
    Captain William Mason Inglis, Royal Engineers (d. 1854)
    Captain Alexander Gordon (d. 1855)
    Captian William Howard Jesse (d. 1855)
    Lieutenant John Henry Stockman Carter (d. 1855)
  • 23.2 x 29.3 cm (image) (image)

    31.3 x 37.5 cm (mount)

  • Memorials, mostly to Royal Engineers [title on contents list]. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson].

  • From the collection of Queen Victoria

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Ukraine
          • Crimea
            • Sevastopol [Crimea]
              • The Redan [Sevastopol]
    • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
      • Town planning, landscapes and gardens
        • Cemeteries
      • Architecture
        • Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
          • Funerary architecture
    • Social sciences
      • Military affairs
        • Wars, Campaigns & Battles
          • Wars
            • Wars of the nineteenth century
              • Crimean War (1853-1856)
                • Crimean campaign (Crimean War)
                  • Battle of Inkerman, 1854 (Crimean War)
                  • Siege of Sevastopol, 1854-55 (Crimean War)
                  • Battle of Balaklava, 1854 (Crimean War)
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs