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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 Edward Neville (1824-1908)

1854-6

Salted paper print | 18.5 x 13.2 cm (image) | RCIN 2500082

Photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Neville seated in an armchair facing partly right with an open book on his lap. He is wearing civilian clothes.

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Neville served as the aide-de-camp to Sir Richard England during the Crimean War and was present at all of the major battles.
  • Creator(s)

    Unknown Person (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Neville (1824-1908)
    Army-GB-Infantry-Scots Fusilier Guards (1832-1877)
  • 18.5 x 13.2 cm (image)

    29.6 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)

  • Lieutenant Colonel Edward Neville, Scots Fusilier Guards, Aide de Camp to Sir Richard England, c.1855 [in Crimean Officers Portraits, 1854 - 1856]

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria

  • Subject(s)
    • Organisation
      • Documentation
        • Books
    • Social sciences
      • Military affairs
        • Wars, Campaigns & Battles
          • Wars
            • Wars of the nineteenth century
              • Crimean War (1853-1856)
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs