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 | 22.3 x 28.3 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500775
Photograph of a British cemetery near Sevastopol. Gravestones, of different shapes and sizes, are arranged in rows with an obelisk memorial at the centre. Behind the graves there is a stone wall with a tall flagpole at the corner to the right. There are cracking marks on the photograph where the negative was damaged.
Before they left the Crimea in 1856 the British created a number of cemeteries where regiments had camped during the Siege of Sevastopol.
Creator(s)
James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
22.3 x 28.3 cm (image) (image)
31.7 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
- 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
