Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
JAMES ROBERTSON (1813-88)
Memorial to several officers of the 90th Light Infantry
1855-1856Salted paper print | 21.2 x 28.4 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500766
Photograph of a memorial to several officers of the 90th Light Infantry who died during the attack on the Redan, 8th September 1855. The memorial is a large gravestone, the inscription clearly visible. There are graves to either side marked with smaller gravestones and cannonballs. There are plants around the graves and open land behind.
Before they left the Crimea in 1856 the British created a number of cemeteries on the sites where regiments had camped during the Siege of Sevastopol.
Creator(s)
James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
21.2 x 28.4 cm (image) (image)
31.3 x 37.6 cm (mount)
Memorial to several officers of the 90th Light Infantry [title on contents list]. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson].
- From the collection of Queen Victoria
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Ukraine
- Crimea
- Sevastopol [Crimea]
- The Redan [Sevastopol]
- Sevastopol [Crimea]
- Crimea
- Ukraine
- Europe
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Town planning, landscapes and gardens
- Cemeteries
- Architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Funerary architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Town planning, landscapes and gardens
- 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
- Places
