Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
JAMES ROBERTSON (1813-88)
Cemetery
1855-1856Salted paper print | 22.8 x 29.5 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500765
Photograph of a British cemetery in the Crimea. There are two rows of gravestones, some with the inscriptions visible. There are stones and plants on the ground around them and a larger memorial surrounded by a wooden fence to the right. Behind the graves there is a stone wall with a gate at the centre.
Before they left the Crimea in 1856 the British created a number of cemeteries on the sites where regiments had camped during the Siege of Sevastopol.
Creator(s)
James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
22.8 x 29.5 cm (image) (image)
31.8 x 37.4 cm (mount)
Cemetery [title on contents list]. [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
- Europe
- Ukraine
- Crimea
- Sevastopol [Crimea]
- Crimea
- Ukraine
- Europe
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Town planning, landscapes and gardens
- Cemeteries
- Architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Funerary architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Town planning, landscapes and gardens
- Social sciences
