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JABEZ HUGHES (1819-84)

Lieutenant-General James William Bosville Macdonald (1810-82)

1883 copy after 1854-6 original

Carbon print | 18.0 x 14.3 cm (image) | RCIN 2500053

Photograph of Lieutenant-General James William Bosville Macdonald sitting in an armchair facing partly left. He is wearing civilian clothes. This photograph, printed by Jabez Hughes in 1883, is a carbon print pasted over the original photograph.

Lieutenant-General James William Bosville Macdonald served in the Crimean War as the Equerry and Aide-de-camp of Prince George, Duke of Cambridge.
  • Creator(s)

    Jabez Hughes (1819-84) (printer)

    Unknown Person (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Lieutenant-General James William Bosville Macdonald (1810-82)
    Army-GB
  • 18.0 x 14.3 cm (image)

    29.6 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)

  • Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon James William Bosville Macdonald, CB, Equerry and ADC to HRH the Duke of Cambridge, 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