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Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion

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Lieutenant-Colonel Augustus Charles Lennox Fitzroy Grafton (1821-1918)

1854-6

Hand-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.
  • Creator(s)

    Unknown Person (photogravurist)

    Subject(s)

    Augustus Charles Lennox Fitzroy, 7th Duke of Grafton (1821-1918)
    Army-GB-Infantry-Coldstream Guards (1819-)
    Army-GB
  • 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
    • Social sciences
      • Military affairs
        • Wars, Campaigns & Battles
          • Wars
            • Wars of the nineteenth century
              • Crimean War (1853-1856)
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs