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Record of historical events

Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion

JAMES ROBERTSON (1813-88)

Memorials to the 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment

1855-1856

Salted paper print | 21.8 x 27.3 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500777

Photograph of a British cemetery near Sevastopol. There are a number of graves, most with their inscriptions clearly visible. Trees and bushes grow among the graves and there is a wall 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)

  • 21.8 x 27.3 cm (image) (image)

    31.8 x 37.7 cm (mount)

  • Memorials to the 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson].

  • From the collection of Queen Victoria

  • Subject(s)
    • Social sciences
      • Military affairs
        • Wars, Campaigns & Battles
          • Wars
            • Wars of the nineteenth century
              • Crimean War (1853-1856)
    • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
      • Town planning, landscapes and gardens
        • Cemeteries
      • Architecture
        • Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
          • Funerary architecture