Victoria and Albert collected works documenting political and military events
James Robertson (1813-88)
Sailors' Battery 1855-1856
Salted paper print | 21.2 x 24.4 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500714
![Sailors' Battery. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson]](https://albert.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/335585-1351701143.jpg?itok=YxSZS2-F "Sailors' Battery. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson]")
Photograph of the sailor's battery in front of Sevastopol. To the left is a thick earth wall reinforced with wicker fencing and sandbags. There are two cannons with a pile of cannonballs on the ground between them. A large group of sailors are gathered behind the wall, two sitting on the ground with their legs crossed.
The Siege of Sevastopol lasted eleven months, with the allied British, French and Turkish forces eventually capturing the city on the 8th September 1855.
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Creator(s)
James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Army-GB-Infantry-34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot (1783-1881)Army-GB-Artillery Regiments -
21.2 x 24.4 cm (image) (image)
31.5 x 37.3 cm (mount)
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Sailors' Battery. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson].
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From the collection of Queen Victoria
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Ukraine
- Crimea
- Sevastopol [Crimea]
- Crimea
- Ukraine
- Europe
- Social sciences
- Military affairs
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Wars
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Crimean campaign (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
- Architecture
- Secular architecture
- Military architecture
- Forts
- Military architecture
- Secular architecture
- Architecture
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Engineering & Technology
- Military engineering
- Fortifications
- Batteries (artillery)
- Arms (weapons)
- Cannons (weapons)
- Fortifications
- Military engineering
- Engineering & Technology
- visual works
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