'Whistling Dick' mortar in the Malakoff, 8 September 1855
Photograph by George Shaw Lefevre, Crimean War (1854-1856), 1855.
'Whistling Dick' was a large Russian mortar situated in the Malakoff (or Malakhov), one of the main defensive redoubts at Sevastopol. Lefevre took this photograph just after the French had successfully assaulted the position on 8 September 1855, an act that marked the effective end of the siege of the Russian port.
From a folio of 12 photographs taken by George Shaw Lefevre, 'Photographic Views of Sebastopol taken immediately after the retreat of the Russians, September 8 1855'. Published by J Hogarth, printed by T Brettell.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1986-04-101-7
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1986-04-101-7
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