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James Robertson (1813-88)
Memorials, mostly to Royal Engineers 1855-1856
Salted paper print | 23.2 x 29.3 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500769
![Memorials, mostly to Royal Engineers [title on contents list]. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson]](https://col.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/a/a/335640-1351701400.jpg?itok=U-EFfNf2 "Memorials, mostly to Royal Engineers [title on contents list]. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson]")
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Photograph of memorials, mostly to officers of the Royal Engineers, in a British cemetery near Sevastopol. The graves are arranged in a row in front of a wall, their inscriptions clearly visible. 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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Salted paper print
Measurements
23.2 x 29.3 cm (image) (image)
31.3 x 37.5 cm (mount)
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Memorials, mostly to Royal Engineers [title on contents list]. [Crimean War photographs by Robertson].
