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ROGER FENTON (1819-69)
Captain Burnaby and Nubian servants
1855Albumen print | 16.7 x 16.2 cm (image) | RCIN 2500414
Photograph of Captain Burnaby (1830-1883) with Nubian servants. Captain Burnaby stands beside a horse facing left and holding a sword in his right hand. One servant stands to the left by the head of the horse and another stands behind it. They are all wearing winter clothes. There is a wooden hut and a hillside behind them.
Captain Burnaby served during the Crimean War with the Grenadier Guards and later became the MP for North Leicestershire.
Creator(s)
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Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)
16.7 x 16.2 cm (image)
57.3 x 44.6 cm (page dimensions)
Captain Burnaby Grds & Nubian servants
Subject(s)
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Industries, Crafts and Trades
- Clothing
- Costume
- Uniforms
- Military uniforms
- Uniforms
- Costume
- Clothing
- Agriculture and related techniques
- Animal husbandry
- Horses
- Animal husbandry
- Industries, Crafts and Trades
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Domestic architecture
- Huts
- Domestic architecture
- Architecture
- 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
- Science, Medicine and Technology
