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 | 21.4 x 31.0 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500770
Photograph of the Haydarpaşa cemetery near the Scutari hospital complex at Constantinople. The gravestones, of different shapes and sizes, are spaced out in a grassy area. The corner of one of the barracks can just be seen to the left and there is a tree in the distance.
Several military hospitals were established by the British in the Scutari area of the city during the Crimean War. The Haydarpaşa cemetery was built nearby to bury the thousands of men who died in the hospitals during the course of the war.
Creator(s)
James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
21.4 x 31.0 cm (image) (image)
31.9 x 37.1 cm (mount)
Cemetery [title on contents list]. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson].
- From the collection of Queen Victoria
Subject(s)
- 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
- Military affairs
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Wars
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Crimean campaign (Crimean War)
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Wars
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Military affairs
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
