Crimean Braves — Men of the Trenches and Battlefields in the Crimea, 1856

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portfolio Title

Photographic Art Treasures

Medium

photogalvanograph

Dimensions

image: 24.5 × 19.8 cm (9 5/8 × 7 13/16 in.)

sheet: 55.8 × 37.9 cm (21 15/16 × 14 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

Accession Number

2023.33.4

Artists / Makers

Joseph Cundall (artist) British, 1818 - 1895

Robert Howlett (artist) British, 1831 - 1858

Photo-Galvano-Graphic Company (printer) British, 1856 - 1857

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Inscription

printed below image in black ink: Photographed from the Life by Cundall and Howlett by Command of Her Majesty / Crimean Braves____Men of the Trenches and Battle fields in the Crimea / Coldstream guards____Privates. / Proof Engraved on Copper by Voltaic Electricity printed with Printers Ink in the ordinary manner. / Published Jan.y 1857 by the Photo Galvano Company____London. Printed by R.Holdgate; embossed with printer’s stamp, lower center of sheet: THE PATENT PHOTO GALVANO GRAPHIC COMPANY / HOLLOWAY / LONDON; by unknown hand, upper left corner, in graphite: P 18 [18 is circled]; on verso, top right corner: EC No 19; lower left corner: 300122.0001

Provenance

(Ken and Jenny Jacobson, Essex, England); (Hans P. Kraus, Jr., New York); NGA purchase, 2023.

Associated Names

Kraus, Inc., H.P.