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Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
JABEZ HUGHES (1819-84)
Major-General Sir William John Ridley (1817-68)
1883 copy after 1854-6 originalCarbon print | 19.8 x 14.6 cm (image) | RCIN 2500059
Photograph of Major-General Sir William John Ridley standing facing partly left with his right hand partly tucked into his jacket. This photograph, printed by Jabez Hughes in 1883, is a carbon print pasted over the original photograph.
Major-General Ridley served in the Crimean War at all of the major battles.
Major-General Ridley served in the Crimean War at all of the major battles.
Creator(s)
Jabez Hughes (1819-84) (printer)
Unknown Person (photographer)
Subject(s)
Sir William John Ridley, Major-General, KCMG (1817-68)Army-GB-Infantry-Scots Fusilier Guards (1832-1877)Army-GB19.8 x 14.6 cm (image)
29.6 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)
Colonel William John Ridley, Commander of Battalion of Scots Fusilier Guards, 1854, 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
