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Evening amusements of British troops in the Crimea   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Template:Robert Thomas Landells
Title
Evening amusements of British troops in the Crimea
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
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English: Sketch of Evening amusements of British troops in the Crimea', Illustrated London News, 12 July 1856.

signed 'R T Landells' (lower left) and dated 'June 3rd 56' verso
indistinctly inscribed with title (lower centre)
"My next sketch pictures the usual evening amusements of the Land Transport Corps, Railway Department, &c., listening to the song so popular at Balaclava, entitled 'The Old Folks at Home'...the bystanders consisted of hamels, and navvies with beards, who would astonish their friends on their return home" (R. Landells, 'Sketches in the Crimea', ILN, 12 July 1856, pg. 49 & 50).
Bonhams Lot number: 14681/lot/173/ Exploration, Travel & Topographical Pictures 12 Dec 2007.

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Depicted place Sebastopol, Crimea
Date 3 June 1856
date QS:P571,+1856-06-03T00:00:00Z/11
Medium pencil and watercolour
Dimensions height: 24 cm (9.4 in); width: 34 cm (13.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,24U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,34U174728
Source/Photographer https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/14681/lot/173/
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