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Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
UNKNOWN PERSON
Lieutenant-Colonel Augustus Charles Lennox Fitzroy Grafton (1821-1918)
1854-6Hand-coloured albumen print | 17.6 x 12.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2500057
Photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel Augustus Charles Lennox Fitzroy Grafton standing facing slightly left. He is resting his right hand on the chair beside him to the left and is holding a bearskin hat in his left hand. The portrait has been hand-coloured.
Lieutenant-Colonel Grafton served in the Crimean War and was badly wounded in the face at the Battle of Inkerman.
Lieutenant-Colonel Grafton served in the Crimean War and was badly wounded in the face at the Battle of Inkerman.
Creator(s)
Unknown Person (photogravurist)
17.6 x 12.1 cm (image)
29.6 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)
Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Charles Fitzroy, Coldstrean Guards, c.1855 [in Crimean Officers' Portraits, 1854 - 1856]
Acquired by Queen Victoria
Subject(s)
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Industries, Crafts and Trades
- Clothing
- Costume
- Uniforms
- Military uniforms
- Uniforms
- Costume
- Clothing
- Industries, Crafts and Trades
- 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
