Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
ROGER FENTON (1819-69)
Camp of the 4th Light Dragoons, Soldiers' Quarters
1855Albumen print | 24.9 x 33.9 cm (image) | RCIN 2500502
Photograph of the soldiers' quarters at the camp of the 4th Light Dragoons. There are a number of wooden huts and tents arranged around a central yard with a track curving round to the left. Men and horses are moving around the camp and there is a hillside behind.
Troops engaged in the Siege of Sevastopol camped in the surrounding countryside.
Creator(s)
Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Army-GB-Cavalry-4th (The Queen's Own Light) Dragoons (1848-1861)Army-GB-Cavalry Regiments24.9 x 33.9 cm (image)
57.3 x 44.6 cm (page dimensions)
Camp 4 Lt Dgs Soldiers Quarters
Subject(s)
- Social sciences
- Military affairs
- Cavalry
- Cavalry soldiers
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Wars
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Wars
- Cavalry
- Military affairs
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Agriculture and related techniques
- Animal husbandry
- Horses
- Cavalry horses
- Horses
- Animal husbandry
- Industries, Crafts and Trades
- Travel Goods
- Tents
- Travel Goods
- Agriculture and related techniques
- Genealogy and Heraldry
- Flags
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Domestic architecture
- Huts
- Domestic architecture
- Architecture
- Geography
- Physiography
- Hills
- Physiography
- Places
- Europe
- Ukraine
- Europe
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Social sciences
