Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
JAMES ROBERTSON (1813-88)
French Headquarters
1855-1856Salted paper print | 24.5 x 30.4 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500667
Photograph of the French Headquarters in Sevastopol after the fall of the city. The photograph shows a row of buildings from the side, with one building slightly taller with a small cupola and a weather vane. Two French soldiers stand by a sentry box at its entrance and a Turkish soldier stands to the right. In front of the buildings there is a yard with several small bare trees and a flagpole, its flag ghosted through movement.
After an eleven month siege the city of Sevastopol was captured by the allied British, French and Turkish forces on the 8th September 1855.
Creator(s)
James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Army-France24.5 x 30.4 cm (image) (image)
31.5 x 37.5 cm (mount)
French Head Quarters. [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
- Places
- Europe
- Ukraine
- Crimea
- Sevastopol [Crimea]
- Crimea
- Ukraine
- Europe
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Social sciences
