Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
ROGER FENTON (1819-69)
Crimean Officers' Portraits, 1854 to 1856
1854-6Red leather album containing albumen, carbon and salted paper prints | 30.5 x 25.5 x 6.5 cm (album) | RCIN 2500000
Red leather album with gold embossed three-line border around the edge and 'CRIMEAN OFFICERS' PORTRAITS 1854 TO 1856' stamped onto the cover and spine. The album contains 121 photographs of soldiers who served in the Crimean War, mostly British but some French. There is a handwritten index at the beginning and a page with a short biography before each photograph. Some of the photographs are by Roger Fenton. RCINs 2500001-2500121.
Creator(s)
Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)
Gustave Le Gray (1820-84) (photographer)
Mayer & Pierson (photographer)
Nadar (1820-1910) (photographer)
James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
Jabez Hughes (1819-84) (printer)
30.5 x 25.5 x 6.5 cm (album)
- Acquired by 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
Object type(s)
- visual works
- albums
- photograph albums
- photographs
- albums
- Social sciences
