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George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800-88)

1854-6

Hand coloured salted paper print | 17.9 x 15.0 cm (image) | RCIN 2500011

Photograph of George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan sitting in a striped armchair facing partly right. His face and elements of his clothing have been hand coloured.

George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan served in the Crimean War and was wounded at the Battle of Balaklava.

  • Creator(s)

    Unknown Person (photographer)

    Unknown Person (colourist)

    Subject(s)

    George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800-88)
    Army-GB-Cavalry Regiments
    Army-GB-Generals

  • 17.9 x 15.0 cm (image)

    29.6 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)

  • Major-General George Charles, Earl of Lucan, K.C.B., Commander of the Cavalry, 1854 [in Crimean Officers' Portraits, 1854 - 1856]

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria

  • Subject(s)
    • Social sciences
      • Military affairs
        • Wars, Campaigns & Battles
          • Wars
            • Wars of the nineteenth century
              • Crimean War (1853-1856)
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
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