Joseph Cundall & Robert Howlett (act.c.1856)

Joseph Cundall & Robert Howlett (act.c.1856)

SERGEANT MAJOR JAMES BEARDSLEY, 1856. Arch-topped salted paper print, pasted down to period album page, image size 22 x 17.2cm, page size 43.5 x 31.5cm.

A carbon print of this portrait is held in the Royal Collection [RCIN 2500208], which notes that "Sergeant Major James Beardsley served with the Royal Horse Artillery during the Crimean War. Throughout the war Queen Victoria had taken an active interest in the welfare of the troops and on their return from the Crimea she met a number of the veterans at Buckingham Palace, Chatham Military Hospital and Aldershot Garrison. Following these meetings she commissioned a series of photographs of the veterans from the photographers Joseph Cundall and Robert Howlett."

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