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JABEZ HUGHES (1819-84)

Major-General Sir Robert Garrett and Staff

1883 copy after 1855 original

Carbon print | 12.9 x 20.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2500097

Photograph of a group of seven soldiers taken during the Crimean War. Included in the photograph are Major-General Sir Robert Garrett (1794-1869), General George Staunton (1809-80) and Major George Frederick Dallas. The men are gathered in front of a stone building, with one leaning on the window ledge from the inside. The lower left section of the photograph shows the fragmentation of the original glass negative. This photograph, printed by Jabez Hughes in 1883, is a carbon print pasted over the original photograph.

  • Creator(s)

    Jabez Hughes (1819-84) (printer)

    Subject(s)

    Major-General Sir Robert Garrett KCB, KH (1794-1869)
    General George Staunton (1809-80)
    Army-GB-Infantry-31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot (1783-1881)
    Major George Frederick Dallas (active 1855)
    Army-GB-Infantry-46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot (1783-1881)(m w 32nd, & 13th of Foot)

  • 12.9 x 20.1 cm (image)

    29.6 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)

  • Major-General Sir Robert Garrett and Staff, c.1855 [in Crimean Officers Portraits, 1854 - 1856]

  • Acquried by Queen Victoria

  • Subject(s)
    • Science, Medicine and Technology
      • Industries, Crafts and Trades
        • Clothing
          • Costume
            • Uniforms
              • Military uniforms
    • Social sciences
      • Military affairs
        • Wars, Campaigns & Battles
          • Wars
            • Wars of the nineteenth century
              • Crimean War (1853-1856)
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
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