Victoria and Albert collected works documenting political and military events
James Robertson (1813-88)
The Malakoff Battery 1855
Salted paper print | 11.9 x 27.6 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500694
![The Malakoff Battery. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson]](https://albert.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/7/4/335566-1351701054.jpg?itok=nbAZ7ORq "The Malakoff Battery. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson]")
Photograph of the Malakoff Battery. In the foreground there is a grassy hillside with a number of rocks. Sevastopol can faintly be seen in the valley behind.
The French, led by Maréchal Pélissier, captured the Malakoff redoubt on the 8th September 1855. It had been one of the key Russian defences during the Siege of Sevastopol and its fall effectively ended the siege. The Russians abandoned the city that evening.
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Creator(s)
James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
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11.9 x 27.6 cm (image) (image)
31.7 x 35.9 cm (mount)
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The Malakoff 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]
- Malakoff redoubt [Sevastopol]
- 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)
- Artillery
- Fortifications
- Military engineering
- Engineering & Technology
- visual works
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