Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion
JAMES ROBERTSON (1813-88)
Valley of the Cemetery
1855-1856Salted paper print | 23.2 x 29.9 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500724
Photograph of the Valley of the Cemetery. In the foreground there is a series of dilapidated buildings with several piles of cannonballs to the right. There is a harbour behind with ruined buildings around the edges and on the hillside behind.
Robertson photographed the landscape around Balaklava and Sevastopol both before and after the Russians retreated.
Creator(s)
James Robertson (1813-88) (photographer)
23.2 x 29.9 cm (image) (image)
31.8 x 37.2 cm (mount)
Valley of the Cemetery. [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
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Town planning, landscapes and gardens
- Cemeteries
- Town planning, landscapes and gardens
- Geography
- Physiography
- Oceans
- Physiography
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Places
