Abstract
Abstract This satirical comment appeared in Punch in 1855, and was a topical joke about the quantity of photographs that were being sent back from the Crimea, where Britain was engaged in a war with Russia.1 The Crimean War was recorded by a number of photographers, professional and amateur, official and unofficial. Of those that have survived the best known are those taken by Roger Fenton2 and James Robertson.3 The first photographer to work in the Crimea was a Rumanian, Szathmari, very few of whose photographs are known to have survived.4 The work of several photographers has been entirely lost. Brandon and Dawson, two British soldiers who made a photographic record of the campaign, were not sufficiently experienced in the art of photography to make permanent images5, and the unfortunate Richard Nicklin, who was commissioned to repeat their work, was drowned in the harbour at Balaclava, during a storm in November 1854. All his photographs and equipment were lost with him.6
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