Victoria and Albert collected works documenting political and military events
James Robertson (1813-88)
Valley of the Shadow of Death 1855-1856
Salted paper print | 22.3 x 29.2 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500723
![Valley of the Shadow of Death. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson]](https://albert.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/5/1/335594-1351701184.jpg?itok=uPqi10tD "Valley of the Shadow of Death. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson]")
Photograph of a ravine in the Crimea named by Robertson as the Valley of the Shadow of Death. A trench runs the breadth of the photograph, with several piles of cannonballs to the right. A town can be seen in the distance, possibly Sevastopol or Balaklava, with the sea beyond.
Robertson photographed the landscape around Balaklava and Sevastopol both before and after the Russians retreated.
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Creator(s)
James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
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22.3 x 29.2 cm (image) (image)
31.7 x 37.2 cm (mount)
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Valley of the Shadow of Death. [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
- Valley of the Shadow of Death [Crimea]
- Crimea
- Ukraine
- Physiography
- Oceans
- Atlantic Ocean
- Black Sea
- Atlantic Ocean
- Oceans
- 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
- visual works
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