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JAMES ROBERTSON (1813-88)
Memorials to the 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment
1855-1856Salted paper print | 21.8 x 27.3 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500777
Photograph of a British cemetery near Sevastopol. There are a number of graves, most with their inscriptions clearly visible. Trees and bushes grow among the graves and there is a wall behind.
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)
Army-GB-Infantry-33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot (1853-1881)Colonel Lacy Walter Giles Yea (1808-55)JNO Arnott (d 1855)Moore, John (1837-1855)Army-GB-Infantry-7th Royal Fusiliers (1846-1881)Byrne, G., Sgt. (d.1855, Crimea)Sergeant P Feather (d. 1855)Sgt J Wallace (d.1855, Crimea)Corporal W Bates (d. 1855)Swyny, Edward S., Hospital Sgt. (d.1854, Crimea)21.8 x 27.3 cm (image) (image)
31.8 x 37.7 cm (mount)
Memorials to the 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment. [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
