Colour Sergeant William Pocock 1856
Salted paper print | 23.5 x 17.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2500200
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Photograph of Colour Sergeant William Pocock standing facing forwards with both hands resting on his rifle. He is wearing military uniform with a bearskin and has a sword by his side.
Colour Sergeant William Pocock served with the Grenadier Guards during the Crimean War. Throughout the war Queen Victoria had taken an active interest in the welfare of the troops and on their return from the Crimea she met a number of the veterans at Buckingham Palace, Chatham Military Hospital and Aldershot Garrison. Following these meetings she commissioned a series of photographs of the veterans from the photographers Joseph Cundall and Robert Howlett.Provenance
Acquired by Queen Victoria
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Medium and techniques
Salted paper print
Measurements
23.5 x 17.8 cm (image)
29.5 x 23.1 cm (page dimensions)
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Colour Sergeant William Pocock, Grenadier Guards, c. 1856 [in Crimean Portraits 1854 - 1856]