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Roger Fenton 
Sir John William Gordon (1814-70) 
1855 (taken) 1883 (print) 
  
Carbon print 
19.0 x 16.2 cm (image) 
  
The Royal Collection 
RCIN 2500106 
  
 
LL/92181 
  
Photograph of Colonel Gordon seated in a chair facing slightly left. He is wearing a peaked military hat and a cape. Behind him is open land and there is a cannonball to the right. This photograph, printed by Jabez Hughes in 1883, is a carbon print pasted over the original photograph.
 
Colonel Gordon served with the Royal Engineers during the Crimean War and was badly injured during the Siege of Sevastopol. 
 

 
  
 
  
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