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JAMES ROBERTSON (1813-88)
Mantlets in the Barracks Battery
1855-1856Salted paper print | 24.2 x 29.3 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500706
Photograph of the mantlets in the barracks battery after the Siege of Sevastopol. The photograph shows the stone wall of the battery, with a rope mantlet hanging on either side of a small stone storage area. In front of each mantlet is a cannon, the one to the left with circles of rope around its neck. Stones, cannonballs, rope and a stool litter the ground behind.
A mantlet is a large and portable shield used to protect fortifications from incoming ammunition. After the French captured the Malakoff redoubt, forcing the Russians to abandon the city, the allied forces entered Sevastopol and occupied the remaining fortifications.
Creator(s)
James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
24.2 x 29.3 cm (image) (image)
Mantlets in Barracks Battery. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson].
- From the collection of Queen Victoria
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Ukraine
- Crimea
- Sevastopol [Crimea]
- Crimea
- Ukraine
- Europe
- Social sciences
- Military affairs
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Wars
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Crimean campaign (Crimean War)
- Siege of Sevastopol, 1854-55 (Crimean War)
- Crimean campaign (Crimean War)
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Wars
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Military affairs
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Military architecture
- Forts
- Military architecture
- Architecture
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Engineering & Technology
- Military engineering
- Fortifications
- Batteries (artillery)
- Arms (weapons)
- Cannons (weapons)
- Ammunition
- Cannon-balls
- Fortifications
- Military engineering
- Engineering & Technology
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
