Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
ROGER FENTON (1819-69)
Colonel Jean Pierre Vico (d.1855)
1883 copy after 1855 originalCarbon print | 20.3 x 15.6 cm (image) | RCIN 2500046
Photograph of Colonel Vico standing in front of a building with his left elbow resting on a wall. He is wearing military uniform and holds a sword in his left hand and a pair of gloves and a small book in his right. This photograph, printed by Jabez Hughes in 1883, is a carbon print pasted over the original photograph.
Colonel Vico was a French soldier who was attached to the British Headquarters during the Crimean War.
Fenton exhibition catalogue (1855) no. 197
Colonel Vico was a French soldier who was attached to the British Headquarters during the Crimean War.
Fenton exhibition catalogue (1855) no. 197
Creator(s)
Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)
Jabez Hughes (1819-84) (printer)
Subject(s)
Colonel Jean Pierre Vico (d.1855)Army-France20.3 x 15.6 cm (image)
29.6 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)
Colonel Jean Pierre Vico, French Commissioner at English headquarters in the East, c.1855
- Acquired by Queen Victoria
Subject(s)
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Industries, Crafts and Trades
- Clothing
- Costume
- Uniforms
- Military uniforms
- Uniforms
- Costume
- Clothing
- Industries, Crafts and Trades
- 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
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Science, Medicine and Technology
