拍品專文
Jean-Baptiste-Henri Durand-Brager was a naval officer, draughtsman and painter, who is known for a series of photographs he made with a photographer Lassimon[?n]e in the Crimea, during the war of 1854-56. It is possible these photographs were made there or during the Baltic campaign. Two of the photographs show vessels trapped in ice: a starboard broadside of a steam brig with stern of another vessel beyond and a starboard bow view of another two-masted steamer with a larger ship in the distance. In the second view it appears that the steamer has sustained damage to the bow. The third view (illus.) is a deck view of a sailing steam warship looking aft to wheel from just ahead of the flying bridge.