Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
ROGER FENTON (1819-69)
The Ordnance Wharf at Balaklava
Mar 1855Albumen print | 20.5 x 25.2 cm (image) | RCIN 2500461
Photograph of the Ordnance Wharf at Balaklava. In the foreground there are piles of cannonballs, along with logs and a cannon. There is a group of men standing to the right and two ships in the harbour behind. On the hillside to the right there are a number of buildings.
Huge supplies of ammunition, or ordnance, were needed for the Siege of Sevastopol. The British received their supplies through the small port town of Balaklava.
Creator(s)
Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)
20.5 x 25.2 cm (image)
57.3 x 44.6 cm (page dimensions)
Balaklava Ordnance Wharf
Subject(s)
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Engineering & Technology
- Military engineering
- Arms (weapons)
- Ammunition
- Cannon-balls
- Cannons (weapons)
- Ammunition
- Arms (weapons)
- Waterway engineering
- Harbours
- Vessels (marine)
- Ships
- Military engineering
- Engineering & Technology
- Geography
- Physiography
- Oceans
- Sea
- Oceans
- Physiography
- Places
- Europe
- Ukraine
- Crimea
- Sevastopol [Crimea]
- Balaklava [Sevastopol]
- Sevastopol [Crimea]
- Crimea
- Ukraine
- Europe
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Architecture
- Buildings
- Architecture
- People
- 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
