Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
JABEZ HUGHES (1819-84)
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Macdonnell (d.1891)
1883 copy after 1854-6 originalCarbon print | 19.8 x 13.7 cm (image) | RCIN 2500108
Photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Macdonnell seated in a patterned chair with his head turned to the left and his left arm resting on the back of the chair. He is wearing civilian clothes. This photograph, printed by Jabez Hughes in 1883, is a carbon print pasted over the original photograph.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Macdonnell served as aide-de-camp to Sir George Brown during the Crimean War.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Macdonnell served as aide-de-camp to Sir George Brown during the Crimean War.
Creator(s)
Jabez Hughes (1819-84) (printer)
Unknown Person (photographer)
Subject(s)
General Sir Alexander Macdonnell (d. 1891)Army-GB-Infantry-Rifle Brigade, 1st BnArmy-GB19.8 x 13.7 cm (image)
29.6 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Macdonell, KCB, Rifle Brigade, ADC to Sir George Brown, c.1855 [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)
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Wars
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Military affairs
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Social sciences
