Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
JAMES ROBERTSON (1813-88)
General Lacy Walter Giles Yea (1808-1855)
1855Salted paper print | 15.4 x 16.0 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500628
Photograph of General Yea and Lieutenant Hobson standing beside a horse. General Yea stands to the left by the horse's head, turning to the right with his left hand resting on the saddle. Lieutenant Hobson, standing to the right, holds out a letter to him with his right hand and holds a sword in his left. Both are wearing military uniform and there is a wooden hut behind them.
General Yea commanded the Royal Fusiliers during the Crimean War. Both men died during the attack on the Redan, 18 June 1855.
Creator(s)
James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Lieutenant James St Clair Hobson (d. 1855)Colonel Lacy Walter Giles Yea (1808-55)Army-GB-Infantry-7th Royal Fusiliers (1846-1881)15.4 x 16.0 cm (image) (image)
31.5 x 36.7 cm (mount)
Genl. Yea. [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
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Agriculture and related techniques
- Animal husbandry
- Horses
- Animal husbandry
- Agriculture and related techniques
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Social sciences
