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Lord George Paget (1818-1880), Colonel 4th Light Dragoons, [1855] — historic photograph
Lord George Paget (1818-1880), Colonel 4th Light Dragoons, [1855]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Lord George Paget commanded the 4th Light Dragoons, the regiment he led in the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in October 1854, when he led the second line of the attack. This salted paper print, dated 1855, belongs to the Roger Fenton Crimean War collection, and the record's subject tags also list horses, a reminder of how central the animals were to cavalry service there. Fenton made his campaign photographs in the Crimea in 1855, and portraits like this one preserve the faces of the officers who fought in that war.

Created / published[1855]
Medium1 photographic print : salted paper ; 18 x 17 cm.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Salted paper prints 1850-1860.
NotesTitle transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, Crimea 1854-56 : the war with Russia from contemporary photographs. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection. Crimea 1854-56 : the war with Russia from contemporary photographs / Lawrence James. New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1981, no. 6.
SubjectsPaget, George,--Lord,--1818-1880--Military service. Great Britain.--Army.--Regiment of Light Dragoons, 4th (Queen's Own)--People--1850-1860. Crimean War, 1853-1856--Military personnel--British. Generals--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860. Horses--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,743 × 4,647 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222483

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