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JABEZ HUGHES (1819-84)

Captain Seymour Lionel William Dawson-Damer (1832-92)

1883 copy after 1854-6 original

Carbon print | 19.5 x 14.4 cm (image) | RCIN 2500090

Photograph of Captain Seymour Lionel William Dawson-Damer reclining facing left. He is wearing civilian clothes and there is a dog lying below his legs. There is a painted background with a vase behind him. This photograph, printed by Jabez Hughes in 1883, is a carbon print pasted over the original photograph.

Captain Seymour Lionel William Dawson-Damer served with the Scots Fusilier Guards during the Crimean War.

  • Creator(s)

    Jabez Hughes (1819-84) (printer)

    Unknown Person (photographer)

  • 19.5 x 14.4 cm (image)

    29.6 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)

  • Captain Seymour Lionel William Dawson-Damere, Scots Fusilier Guards, c.1855 [in Crimean Officers Portraits, 1854 - 1856]

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria

  • Subject(s)
    • Science, Medicine and Technology
      • Agriculture and related techniques
        • Animal husbandry
          • Dogs
    • Social sciences
      • Military affairs
        • Wars, Campaigns & Battles
          • Wars
            • Wars of the nineteenth century
              • Crimean War (1853-1856)
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