Robertson, J. & Beato, F.1854Interior of the Barrack Battery, Sebastopol
Salted paper print9 1/8 x 11 1/8 ins
Archive FarmsReport on the art of war in Europe in 1854, 1855, and 1856. / By Major Richard Delafield, Corps of engineers, from his notes and observations made as a member of a "Military commission to the theater of war in Europe," under the orders of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, secretary of War. Washington: George W. Bowman, 1861., fig 38
Crimée 1854-1856 premiers reportages de guerre exposition du 24 octobre 1994 au 8 janvier 1995 musée de l armée hôtel national des invalides, paris, 1994, pg 33
Helmut and Alison Gernsheim - Roger Fenton, Photographer of the Crimean War, Secker & Warburg, London, 1954, fig 83
Lawrence James, Crimea 1854-56: The War With Russia from Contemporary Photographs, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1981, pl 64
Recent research suggests that this was taken by Felice Beato, who at the time was Robertson's assistant.
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James Robertson and Felice Beato In the Crimea: Recent Findings LL/64955