Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
JAMES ROBERTSON (1813-88)
Barrack Hospital, Scutari
1855-1856Salted paper print | 21.8 x 32.7 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500795
Photograph of the Barrack Hospital at Scutari, Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul). In the foreground there is a long wooden hut with a tiled roof. Behind is the barrack style hospital, with a seven storey tower at each corner. On the terrace in front of the hospital to the left there is a line of gun carriages.
The Selimiye Barracks were used by the British as a military hospital during the Crimean War, with casualties transported by ship across the Black Sea. Florence Nightingale, the pioneering nurse, lived in a tower of the barracks whilst working in the hospital.
The Selimiye Barracks were used by the British as a military hospital during the Crimean War, with casualties transported by ship across the Black Sea. Florence Nightingale, the pioneering nurse, lived in a tower of the barracks whilst working in the hospital.
Creator(s)
James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
21.8 x 32.7 cm (image) (image)
31.8 x 37.4 cm (mount)
Barrack Hospital, Scutari. [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
- Places
- Asia
- Turkey
- Istanbul [Turkey]
- Usküdar [Istanbul]
- Istanbul [Turkey]
- Turkey
- Asia
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Secular architecture
- Hospitals
- Pavilions
- Secular architecture
- Architecture
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Social sciences
