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Sergeant Robert Glasgow
1856Salted paper print | 22.6 x 15.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2500207
Photograph of Sergeant Robert Glasgow standing facing slightly left with his arms folded. He is wearing military uniform with two medals and a fur hat. There is a sword by his side.
Sergeant Robert Glasgow served with the Royal Artillery during the Crimean War. Throughout the war Queen Victoria had taken an active interest in the welfare of the troops and on their return from the Crimea she met a number of the veterans at Buckingham Palace, Chatham Military Hospital and Aldershot Garrison. Following these meetings she commissioned a series of photographs of the veterans from the photographers Joseph Cundall and Robert Howlett.
Creator(s)
Cundall & Howlett (photographer)
Subject(s)
Sergeant Robert GlasgowArmy-GB-Artillery-Royal Artillery22.6 x 15.8 cm (image)
29.5 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)
Sergeant Robert Glasgow, Royal Artillery, c. 1856 [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)
- Side arms (weapons)
- Swords
- Side arms (weapons)
- Arms (weapons)
- Military engineering
- Industries, Crafts and Trades
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Plastic arts
- Numismatics
- Medals
- Campaign medals
- Crimea Medal (1854-56)
- Campaign medals
- Medals
- Numismatics
- Plastic arts
- 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
