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JABEZ HUGHES (1819-84)

Lieutenant-Colonel Lauderdale Maule (1807-54)

1883 copy of 1854 original

Carbon print | 19.2 x 14.2 cm (image) | RCIN 2500049

Photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel Lauderdale Maule seated facing partly right with his arms folded over his chest. He is wearing civilian clothes. This photograph, printed by Jabez Hughes in 1883, is a carbon print pasted over the original photograph.

Lieutenant-Colonel Maule held the position of Surveyor-General of Ordnance during the Crimean War. He died of cholera during the conflict.
  • Creator(s)

    Jabez Hughes (1819-84) (photographer)

    Unknown Person (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    The Honourable Lauderdale Maule, Lieutenant-Colonel (1807-54)
    Army-GB
  • 19.2 x 14.2 cm (image)

    29.6 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)

  • Lieutenant Colonel the Hon. Lauderdale Maule, Surveyor General of the Ordanance, c 1854 [in Crimean Officers' Portraits, 1854 - 1856]

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria

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