'Sardinian vedette at the ruins of Tchorugoun'

Watercolour by Colonel (later General Sir) The Honourable George Cadogan (1814-1880), 1st (or Grenadier) Regiment of Foot Guards.

Vedette is a French military term, adopted by the British and others, to describe a mounted patrol or outpost responsible for gathering intelligence and providing advanced warnings about enemy movements to the main body of troops.

From an album of paintings and sketches (with some paper ephemera) known as 'Cadogan's Crimea', 1854-1856.