Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
JAMES ROBERTSON (1813-88)
The Victoria Ravine
1855-1856Salted paper print | 25.3 x 29.4 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500725
Photograph of the Victoria Ravine. Soldiers are standing on the road at the bottom of the ravine, or sitting by the roadside. The road is littered with cannonballs and some soldiers are holding one. Halfway up the steep hillside behind there is a shelter built into the rock, the walls reinforced with sandbags.
The Victoria Ravine, also known as the Worontzoff Ravine, marked the line between the British and French forces during the Siege of Sevastopol.
Creator(s)
James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
25.3 x 29.4 cm (image) (image)
31.8 x 37.4 cm (mount)
The Victoria Ravine. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson].
- From the collection of Queen Victoria
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Ukraine
- Crimea
- Sevastopol [Crimea]
- Balaklava [Sevastopol]
- Valley of the Shadow of Death [Crimea]
- Sevastopol [Crimea]
- Crimea
- Ukraine
- Black Sea
- Europe
- Social sciences
- Military affairs
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Wars
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Crimean campaign (Crimean War)
- Battle of Balaklava, 1854 (Crimean War)
- Crimean campaign (Crimean War)
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Wars of the nineteenth century
- Wars
- Wars, Campaigns & Battles
- Military affairs
- Geography
- Physiography
- Oceans
- Physiography
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
