Group of the 71st Regiment with colour sergeant – Historic Reproduction
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Group of the 71st Regiment with colour sergeant. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Group of the 71st Regiment with colour sergeant
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This group portrait of the 71st Regiment, posed around its color sergeant, differs from Roger Fenton's broader views of the Crimean camps because it fixes particular men of one unit at close range. Fenton worked in the Crimea in 1855, when the British army was besieging Sevastopol, and his camera recorded soldiers, officers and camp life at a time when photographs of the war were rare. The color sergeant carried the regiment's colors, so his place at the center of the group signals the honor attached to the flag.
| Created / published | [1855] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : salted paper ; 19 x 17 cm. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1850-1860.Group portraits 1850-1860.Salted paper prints 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection. |
| Subjects | Great Britain.--Army.--Regiment, 71st--People--1850-1860. Crimean War, 1853-1856--Military personnel--British. Military personnel--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,742 × 4,652 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222477 |
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