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ROGER FENTON (1819-69)
Major Brandling's troop of Horse Artillery
1855Salted paper print | 25.5 x 34.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2500505
Photograph of Major Brandling's troop of horse artillery. Major Brandling is mounted on a horse to the left with a group of soldiers around him. To the right there are a number of tents with soldiers standing beside them in a group. Behind the tents there is a row of wooden huts. On the grass further down the hillside there is a big group of horses and several rows of gun carriages. Behind there is a rocky hillside with a track leading up to the left and another camp on the top.
Troops engaged in the Siege of Sevastopol camped in the surrounding countryside.
Creator(s)
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Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)
25.5 x 34.1 cm (image)
57.3 x 44.6 cm (page dimensions)
Major Brandling's Troop of Horse Artillery
Subject(s)
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Engineering & Technology
- Military engineering
- Arms (weapons)
- Artillery
- Gun Carriages
- Arms (weapons)
- Roads
- Military engineering
- Industries, Crafts and Trades
- Travel Goods
- Tents
- Travel Goods
- Agriculture and related techniques
- Animal husbandry
- Horses
- Animal husbandry
- Engineering & Technology
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Domestic architecture
- Huts
- Domestic architecture
- Architecture
- Places
- Physiography
- Hills
- Europe
- Ukraine
- Physiography
- 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
- Science, Medicine and Technology