Record of historical events
Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
ROGER FENTON (1819-69)
Crimean Portraits
1855Salted paper prints in a leather album | 38.8 x 34.0 x 2.8 cm (album) | RCIN 1039814
Blue leather photograph album containing 31 portraits of soldiers who served during the Crimean War. The portraits are of British, French and Turkish soldiers including senior military figures such as Lord Raglan, Maréchal Pélissier and Omar Pacha. RCINs 2506565 - 2506595.
Creator(s)
Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)
Subject(s)
General Labousiniere (active 1855)Sir Henry William Barnard (1799-1857)Lieutenant-General Sir Harry David Jones (1791-1866)Major General Sir John William Gordon KCB, KH (1814-70)Edward, Prince of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1823-1902)Colonel Charles Francis Seymour (1819-54)Pierre François Joseph Bosquet, General (1810-61)Major-General Sir Henry Bentinck (1796-1878)General de Cissé [Cissey] (1810-82)Sir George de Lacy Evans (1787-1870)Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte (1822-91)Maréchal Aimable-Jean-Jacques Pélissier, Duke of Malakoff (1794-1864)Omar Pacha (1806-71)Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788-1855)General BeuretField Marshal Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (1792-1863)Major General Henry Frederick Lockyer (d. 1860)Francis William Henry Fane, 12th Earl of Westmorland (1825-91)Colonel Jean Pierre Vico (d.1855)Sir John Fox Burgoyne (1782-1871)Major-General Sir John Campbell of Ava, 2nd Baronet (1807-55)Sir James Yorke Scarlett (1799-1871)Major-General Sir Robert Garrett KCB, KH (1794-1869)General Sir George Brown (1790-1865)Lord RaglanSir James Simpson, General, GCB (1792-1868)General Sir William John Codrington (1804-84)Sir Richard England (1793-1883)Major General Sir John Lysaght Pennefather (1800-72)General Charles Ash Windham (1810-70)Major-General James Bucknall Bucknall Estcourt (1802-55)Major General Sir George Buller (1802-84)38.8 x 34.0 x 2.8 cm (album)
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
- Photography
- Photographs
- Photograph albums
- Photographs
- Photography
Object type(s)
- visual works
- albums
- photograph albums
- albums
- Social sciences
