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ROGER FENTON (1819-69)
'L'Entente Cordiale'
1855Albumen print | 16.7 x 16.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2500383
Photograph of a group of British and French soldiers relaxing together. The men stand or sit in a loose line with the soldier in the middle sitting on a wooden barrel and pouring wine into the glass of the man standing beside him to the right. The soldier sitting to the far right is reading a newspaper and several are smoking pipes. All are wearing military uniform. There is a wooden hut to the right and two horses graze on the hillside behind them.
British and French troops fought alongside each other in the Crimean War.
Creator(s)
View person pageRoger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)
16.7 x 16.1 cm (image)
57.3 x 44.6 cm (page dimensions)
The Entente Cordiale
Subject(s)
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Wine making
- Wine
- Agriculture and related techniques
- Animal husbandry
- Horses
- Animal husbandry
- Industries, Crafts and Trades
- Clothing
- Costume
- Uniforms
- Military uniforms
- Uniforms
- Costume
- Clothing
- Wine making
- Organisation
- Newspapers
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Domestic architecture
- Huts
- Domestic architecture
- Architecture
- 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