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)
Subject(s)
Augustus Charles Lennox Fitzroy, 7th Duke of Grafton (1821-1918)Army-GB-Infantry-Coldstream Guards (1819-)Army-GB17.6 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
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Science, Medicine and Technology
