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Record of historical events

Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion

JABEZ HUGHES (1819-84)

Lord Frederick George Leveson-Gower (1832-54)

1883 copy after 1854 original

Carbon print | 19.3 x 13.3 cm (image) | RCIN 2500050

Photograph of Lord Frederick George Leveson-Gower standing facing left with his head turned towards the camera. He is wearing civilian clothes and is holding a pair of gloves. This photograph, printed by Jabez Hughes in 1883, is a carbon print pasted over the original photograph.

Lord Frederick George Leveson-Gower died in the very early stages of the Crimean War.
  • Creator(s)

    Jabez Hughes (1819-84) (printer)

    Unknown Person (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Lord Frederick George Leveson-Gower (1832-54)
    Army-GB-Infantry-Coldstream Guards (1819-)
    Army-GB
  • 19.3 x 13.3 cm (image)

    29.6 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)

  • Lord Frederick Leveson-Gower, Coldstream Guards, 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