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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)
Monastery of St George
1855-1856Salted paper print | 23.9 x 27.5 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500756
Photograph of the St George Monastery. The monastery consists of several buildings, interspaced with walled gardens. To the far right of the complex there is a small chapel with a dome and a portico supported by four columns. To the right and in the distance there are rocky cliffs. Two soldiers stand on the grassy hillside to the left, the man standing behind holding a basket.
The St George Monastery, on the coast near Balaklava, was used as a convalescent hospital during the Crimean War.
Creator(s)
James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
23.9 x 27.5 cm (image) (image)
31.5 x 36.8 cm (mount)
Monastery of St George. [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]
- St George's Monastery [Sevastopol]
- Sevastopol [Crimea]
- Crimea
- Ukraine
- Black Sea
- Europe
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Monastic buildings
- Monasteries
- Christian church architecture
- Churches
- Monastic buildings
- Ecclesiastical & religious architecture
- Architecture
- Geography
- Physiography
- Oceans
- Physiography
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Social sciences
