Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
JAMES ROBERTSON (1813-88)
21 Gun Battery
1855-1856Gelatin silver print | 19.5 x 23.3 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500778
Photograph of a twenty-one gun battery in front of Sevastopol. To the left is a thick earth wall reinforced with wicker fencing and sandbags. There are two cannons with a pile of cannonballs on the ground between them. A large group of soldiers are gathered behind the wall, two sitting on the ground with their legs crossed.
The Siege of Sevastopol lasted eleven months, with the allied British, French and Turkish forces eventually capturing the city on the 8th September 1855.
Creator(s)
James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Army-GB-Infantry-34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot (1783-1881)Army-GB-Artillery Regiments19.5 x 23.3 cm (image) (image)
28.2 x 32.1 cm (mount)
21 Gun Battery/Sailors' Battery [title of duplicates, 2500709 & 714]. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson].
- Copy of an original from the collection of Queen Victoria
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Ukraine
- Crimea
- Sevastopol [Crimea]
- Crimea
- Ukraine
- Europe
- Social sciences
- Military affairs
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Wars
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Crimean campaign (Crimean War)
- Siege of Sevastopol, 1854-55 (Crimean War)
- Crimean campaign (Crimean War)
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Wars
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Military affairs
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Military architecture
- Forts
- Military architecture
- Architecture
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Engineering & Technology
- Military engineering
- Fortifications
- Batteries (artillery)
- Arms (weapons)
- Cannons (weapons)
- Fortifications
- Military engineering
- Engineering & Technology
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
