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JAMES ROBERTSON (1813-88)

Highland Regiment grouped outside a line of huts with a horse

1855-1856

Salted paper print | 20.7 x 28.1 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500643

Photograph of a group of soldiers from a Highland Regiment standing in front of a wooden hut. Some men are sitting and some standing, with one man standing slightly apart to the right holding the reins of a horse. All are wearing military uniform, some with kilts and bearskin hats. There is a hillside behind the wooden hut.
  • Creator(s)

    James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Army-GB
    Army-GB-Highland Regiments
  • 20.7 x 28.1 cm (image) (image)

    31.8 x 37.3 cm (mount)

  • Highland Regiment grouped outside line of huts, with horse [taken from contents list]. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson].

  • From the collection of Queen Victoria

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Ukraine
          • Crimea
    • Science, Medicine and Technology
      • Agriculture and related techniques
        • Animal husbandry
          • Horses
    • Social sciences
      • Military affairs
        • Wars, Campaigns & Battles
          • Wars
            • Wars of the nineteenth century
              • Crimean War (1853-1856)
                • Crimean campaign (Crimean War)
                  • Siege of Sevastopol, 1854-55 (Crimean War)
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs