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Men working in a British cemetery 1855-1856
Salted paper print | 23.9 x 29.1 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500762
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Photograph of men working in a British cemetery in the Crimea. The cemetery contains a number of simple gravestones, with the inscriptions clearly visible on most. Five men are gathered to the left, two digging a grave and one sanding down a block of stone. Beside them there is a gravestone lying flat on wooden planks. Behind the graves there is a stone wall with an open gateway to the right. Before they left the Crimea in 1856 the British created a number of cemeteries on the sites where regiments had camped during the Siege of Sevastopol.
Provenance
From the collection of Queen Victoria
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Medium and techniques
Salted paper print
Measurements
23.9 x 29.1 cm (image) (image)
31.8 x 37.3 cm (mount)
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Men working in British cemetery. [Title in contents list]. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson].