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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
1855-1856Salted 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)
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Wars
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Military affairs
- 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
