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Victoria and Albert collected photographs that documented the political and military events that defined a period of global expansion

      ROGER FENTON (1819-69)

      Crimean Portraits, 1854 to 1856

      1854-6

      Red leather album containing albumen, salted paper and carbon prints | 30.4 x 25.0 x 4.6 cm (album) | RCIN 2500122

      Red leather album with gold embossed three-line border around the edge and the title 'Crimean Portraits 1854 to 1856' stamped onto the cover and spine. The album contains 106 photographs of soldiers from different regiments who served in the Crimean War. Included in the album are portraits of wounded soldiers at Chatham Military Hospital which were commissioned by Queen Victoria and taken by Joseph Cundall and Robert Howlett. The album also contains several of Roger Fenton's photographs from the Crimea. Many of the photographs in this album have been reproduced in carbon. RCINs 2500123 - 2500228.

      • Creator(s)

        Roger Fenton (1819-69) (photographer)

        Cundall & Howlett (photographer)

        Jabez Hughes (1819-84) (printer)

      • 30.4 x 25.0 x 4.6 cm (album)

      • Acquired by Queen Victoria

      • Subject(s)
        • Social sciences
          • Military affairs
            • Wars, Campaigns & Battles
              • Wars
                • Wars of the nineteenth century
                  • Crimean War (1853-1856)
        • Places
          • Europe
            • Ukraine
              • Crimea
            • Great Britain
              • England
                • Greater London [England]
                  • London [Greater London]
                    • City of Westminster [London]
                      • Buckingham Palace
        • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
          • Architecture
            • Secular architecture
              • Hospitals
        • Science, Medicine and Technology
          • Medical sciences
            • Pathology
              • Amputations (surgical operations)
        Object type(s)
          • visual works
            • albums
              • photograph albums
            • photographs
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