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Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
JAMES ROBERTSON (1813-88)
8 Gun Battery
1855-1856Salted paper print | 19.0 x 29.6 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500708
Photograph of an eight gun battery in front of Sevastopol. A wall created from earth and sandbags runs the breadth of the middle ground. Cannons are spaced at intervals behind the wall, some with a neat pile of cannonballs beside them. Sevastopol can be seen in the distance, the Russian military barracks at the forefront and the harbour to the right.
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)
19.0 x 29.6 cm (image) (image)
31.8 x 37.5 cm (mount)
8 Gun Battery. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson].
- From the collection of Queen Victoria
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Ukraine
- Crimea
- Sevastopol [Crimea]
- Crimea
- Ukraine
- Black Sea
- 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
- Geography
- Physiography
- Oceans
- Physiography
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
