Record of historical events
Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
CHARLES THURSTON THOMPSON (1816-68)
Military Prisons, Boulogne
c. 1857Albumen print | 16.3 x 27.5 cm (image) | RCIN 2500821
Photograph of three triangular-shaped thatched huts with a thatched sentry box and three piles of rifles in front of them. A low building with a sloped roof is visible in the middle ground, on the left, on the edge of the cliff with the sea beyond.
Creator(s)
Charles Thurston Thompson (1816-68)
(photographer)
16.3 x 27.5 cm (image)
Military prisons, Boulogne. [Boulogne and Aldershot, c. late 1850s].
Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- France
- Nord-Pas-de-Calais [France]
- Boulogne-sur-Mer [France]
- Nord-Pas-de-Calais [France]
- France
- Europe
- Places
