Captain Portal, 4th Light Dragoons equipped for Balaklava – Antique Wall Art
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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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A window into the past: Captain Portal, 4th Light Dragoons equipped for Balaklava, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Captain Portal, 4th Light Dragoons equipped for Balaklava
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Captain Robert Portal of the 4th Light Dragoons sits for this portrait in the kit he was issued for service at Balaklava, which Roger Fenton photographed in the Crimea in 1855. The 4th was one of the cavalry regiments in the Light Brigade, whose charge at Balaklava in October 1854 became one of the war's most famous and most debated actions. Fenton printed on salted paper, a process that gives the image its soft, warm tone and shows the uniform and equipment in fine detail.
| Created / published | [1855] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : salted paper ; 21.5 x 17 cm. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 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 | Portal, Robert,--Captain--Military service. Great Britain.--Army.--Regiment of Light Dragoons, 4th (Queen's Own)--People--1850-1860. Crimean War, 1853-1856--Military personnel--British. Military officers--British--Ukraine--Crimea--1850-1860. Military uniforms--British--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,748 × 4,657 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222557 |
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