Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
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Sergeant and Private of the Grenadier Guards at Buckingham Palace
1883 copy after 1855 originalCarbon print | 13.6 x 11.1 cm (image) | RCIN 2500171
Photograph of a Sergeant and a Private of the Grenadier Guards who served in the Crimean War. They are wearing dress uniform and are each holding a rifle. Buckingham Palace can be seen behind. This photograph, printed by Jabez Hughes in 1883, is a carbon print pasted over the original photograph.
Throughout the war Queen Victoria had taken an active interest in the welfare of the troops and on their return to Britain she met a number of veterans at Buckingham Palace and at the military hospital at Chatham.
Throughout the war Queen Victoria had taken an active interest in the welfare of the troops and on their return to Britain she met a number of veterans at Buckingham Palace and at the military hospital at Chatham.
Creator(s)
Unknown Person (photographer)
Jabez Hughes (1819-84) (printer)
Subject(s)
Army-GB-Infantry-Foot Guards (1st or Grenadier) (1819- )Army-GB-Privates13.6 x 11.1 cm (image)
29.5 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)
2 men of the Grenadier Guards at Buckingham Palace, c. 1855 [in Crimean Portraits, 1854 - 1856]
- Acquired by Queen Victoria
Subject(s)
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Industries, Crafts and Trades
- Clothing
- Costume
- Uniforms
- Military uniforms
- Uniforms
- Costume
- Clothing
- Engineering & Technology
- Military engineering
- Arms (weapons)
- Firearms
- Rifles
- Firearms
- Arms (weapons)
- Military engineering
- Industries, Crafts and Trades
- Places
- Europe
- Great Britain
- England
- Greater London [England]
- London [Greater London]
- City of Westminster [London]
- Buckingham Palace
- City of Westminster [London]
- London [Greater London]
- Greater London [England]
- England
- Great Britain
- Europe
- 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
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Science, Medicine and Technology
