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Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
ATTRIBUTED TO CORPORAL CHURCH, ROYAL ENGINEERS (ACTIVE 1850S)
Artillery Field Forge, Aldershot
c. 1857Albumen print | 17.9 x 28.4 cm (image) | RCIN 2500839
Photograph of a group of blacksmiths working around an anvil next to a pair of gun carriages. A man leans against the wheel of the carriage smoking a pipe. A horse stands in the background and kindling lies stacked in the foreground.
Creator(s)
Attributed to Corporal Church, Royal Engineers (active 1850s)
(photographer)
17.9 x 28.4 cm (image)
37.4 x 44.5 cm (mount)
Artillery field forge. [Boulogne and Aldershot, c. late 1850s].
Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- England
- Hampshire [England]
- Aldershot [Hampshire]
- Hampshire [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Places
