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)
Group of Croats
Mar 1855Albumen print | 16.8 x 16.4 cm (image) | RCIN 2500422
Photograph of eight Croat labourers gathered in a group. Five are sitting in a row on the ground with the man sitting second from the left facing right smoking a long pipe. Two stand and another kneels behind them. They are wearing a mix of open jackets and fur coats and all are wearing headscarves. Behind them is a wooden hut partially covered by a cloth sheet.
Creator(s)
Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Croats16.8 x 16.4 cm (image)
57.3 x 44.6 cm (page dimensions)
Group of Croats
Subject(s)
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Buildings
- Architecture
- People
- 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
- photographs
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
