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James Robertson
Port de Balaklava pendant la guerre de Crimée (View of Balaklava Harbour during the Crimean War) [Title incorrect: View of Kamiesch]
1855
Salted paper print from wet collodion on glass negative, Mounted on paper
Rijksmuseum
Copyright © Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (RP-F-F00108)
LL/25782
This print has the handwritten French caption "Port de Balaklava pendant la guerre de Crimée" on the mount which is incorrect. The view is not of Balaklava, which is surrounded by steep hills, but of the French-controlled port of Kamiesch to the west of Sevastopol.
[pers. email, David Jones to Alan Griffiths, 4 April 2013]
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