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 77th Regiment
1855-1856Salted paper print | 22.3 x 27.4 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500774
Photograph of memorials to the 77th Regiment in a British cemetery near Sevastopol. The graves are surrounded by low stone walls, and several have gravestones. Behind the graves there is a stone wall and a large camp can be seen in the distance.
Before they left the Crimea in 1856 the British created a number of cemeteries where regiments had camped during the Siege of Sevastopol.
Creator(s)
James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Army-GB-Infantry-77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot (1808-1881)Maine, Arthur, Lt. (d.1854/5, Crimea)Nicholson, John, Capt. (d.1854, Crimea)Colonel Thomas Graham Egerton (d. 1855 - Crimea)22.3 x 27.4 cm (image) (image)
31.7 x 37.5 cm (mount)
Memorials to the 77th Regiment [title on contents list]. [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)
- Crimean campaign (Crimean War)
- Battle of Inkerman, 1854 (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
- Town planning, landscapes and gardens
- Cemeteries
- Architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Funerary architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Town planning, landscapes and gardens
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Social sciences
