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JAMES ROBERTSON (1813-88)

Cemetery

1855-1856

Salted paper print | 23.1 x 28.6 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500773

Photograph of a British cemetery near Sevastopol. The gravestones, of different shapes and sizes, are arranged in a group with most of the inscriptions clearly visible. There is a wooden barrel and a tin box on the ground and a stone wall behind the graves. 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.

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James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
23.1 x 28.6 cm (image) (image)

31.7 x 37.3 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
- Social sciences
  Military affairs
  Wars, Campaigns & Battles
  Wars
  Wars of the nineteenth century
  Crimean War (1853-1856)
  Crimean campaign (Crimean War)
  Siege of Sevastopol, 1854-55 (Crimean War)
- Places
  Europe
  Ukraine
  Crimea
  Sevastopol [Crimea]
  The Redan [Sevastopol]

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