Lot Essay
Comprising views of camps, cannon outposts, the French telegraph station in the Malakoff tower, devastated docks of Sebastopol, the interior of the Redan and a military graveyard.
'Crimean Photographs', 1855-56
Details
JAMES ROBERTSON (c.1831-1881)
'Crimean Photographs', 1855-56
Album containing twelve salt prints including one two-part and one three-part panorama, 9 x 22 in. and 9 x 34 in. respectively, other sizes approx. 7 x 11.7/8 in. to 9 x 11.7/8 in., two signed Robertson in the negatives and ten annotated MU in ink on recto, half maroon morocco (spine damaged and part disbound), titled in gilt on leather panel on front cover, g.e., lge. oblong 4to.
'Crimean Photographs', 1855-56
Album containing twelve salt prints including one two-part and one three-part panorama, 9 x 22 in. and 9 x 34 in. respectively, other sizes approx. 7 x 11.7/8 in. to 9 x 11.7/8 in., two signed Robertson in the negatives and ten annotated MU in ink on recto, half maroon morocco (spine damaged and part disbound), titled in gilt on leather panel on front cover, g.e., lge. oblong 4to.
Provenance
Frederick, 2nd Lord Methuen who served in the Crimean War; the Executors of John 6th Baron Methuen, Sothebys at Syon House, 14-16 May 1997.