Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
JAMES ROBERTSON (1813-88)
Men working in a British cemetery
1855-1856Salted paper print | 23.9 x 29.1 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500762
Photograph of men working in a British cemetery in the Crimea. The cemetery contains a number of simple gravestones, with the inscriptions clearly visible on most. Five men are gathered to the left, two digging a grave and one sanding down a block of stone. Beside them there is a gravestone lying flat on wooden planks. Behind the graves there is a stone wall with an open gateway to the right.
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)
23.9 x 29.1 cm (image) (image)
31.8 x 37.3 cm (mount)
Men working in British cemetery. [Title in 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)
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Wars
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Military affairs
- Places
- Europe
- Ukraine
- Crimea
- 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
