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 5th Dragoon Guards
1855Albumen print | 26.2 x 35.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2500503
Photograph of the camp of the 5th Dragoon Guards. In the foreground there is a small camp with a number of tents and wooden huts. Several horses are grazing at the centre of the camp, some blurred through movement. The campsite extends into the valley behind and there are hills in the distance.
Troops engaged in the Siege of Sevastopol camped in the surrounding countryside.
Creator(s)
Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Army-GB-Cavalry-5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards (1846-1920)Army-GB-Cavalry Regiments26.2 x 35.8 cm (image)
57.3 x 44.6 cm (page dimensions)
Camp 5th D Gds
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
- Plains
- Physiography
- Places
- Europe
- Ukraine
- Europe
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Social sciences
