Part of the English Cemetery near Sevastopol c.1900
Hand-coloured gelatin silver print | 17.0 x 23.0 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2500804
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Photograph from a series showing Crimean battlefields, 1900-01. The photograph shows a memorial to 18 officers, 27 sergeants and 475 riflemen of the 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade in the English Cemetery near Sevastopol. The memorial is a small marble obelisk and is surrounded by flowers and trees. Other graves can be seen in the background. The photograph is tinted with pinks and blues. Before they left the Crimea in 1856 the English built a large cemetery near Sevastopol. Significant sites from the Crimean War continued to be of interest to British, French and Russian photographers even decades after the conflict.
Provenance
Presented to King George V by Charles J Cooke, 1917. Cooke originally commissioned the photographs from a local photographer while British Vice-Consul of Sevastopol with the intention of presenting them to Queen Victoria.
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Medium and techniques
Hand-coloured gelatin silver print
Measurements
17.0 x 23.0 cm (image) (image)
22.5 x 31.5 cm (mount)
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Part of the English Cemetery near Sevastopol, 1900, showing a memorial to 10 officers, 27 sergeants and 475 riflemen of the 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. [Crimean battlefields, 1900-1901 ... presented by Charles J. Cooke].