Count Gleichen's fellow officers at Alexandria
Photograph
1885 (made)
1885 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Albumen print in an album containing sketches (19) and photographs (26) of views, troops, and events from Lord Wolseley's Nile Campaign of 1884-1885. Half-bound in green morocco.
Object details
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| Title | Count Gleichen's fellow officers at Alexandria (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Albumen print |
| Brief description | Count Gleichen's fellow officers at Alexandria. Albumen print in an album containing sketches (19) and photographs (26) of views, troops, and events from Lord Wolseley's Nile Campaign of 1884-1885. Unknown photographer. |
| Physical description | Albumen print in an album containing sketches (19) and photographs (26) of views, troops, and events from Lord Wolseley's Nile Campaign of 1884-1885. Half-bound in green morocco. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed with the names of the officers and dated July 1885.
Bill Cumming SGDs
Vesey Dawson CGDs
E. Gleichen GGDs
Woolly Gordon Gilmour GGDs
Douglas Dawson CGDs
Hugh Amherst CGDs
Stan Boscastle[?] CGDs
Mildmay Willson SGDs
H S N White (Marines)
Ivor Herbert GGDs
L. D'Aguilar GGDs
Crabbe GGDs
Pearson GGDs
Baden Powell SGDs
Charlie Rowley GGDs
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| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
| Object history | According to Rodney Searight: - `Bt Sotheby's, June 1970 £52'. [For the whole album] |
| Historical context | Gleichen purchased photographs in Cairo to supplement his drawings in this album. The Nile Campaign included members of the Camel Corps and fellow officers of the Guards Camel Regiment in that corps. See Searight Archive for details of military action and correlation between sketches and Gleichen's publication. Cf. W. S. Perry (SD.772-SD.798), O. Norie (SD.701-SD.702), and contemporary volumes of the Illustrated London News and The Graphic. |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | SD.426:45 |
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| Record created | November 5, 2008 |
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