The British lieutenant colonel and painter Mottram Andrews took part in the Crimean war. Immediately after the signing of peace, he published an impressive work which depicts several stages of the war, from the moment when the British fleet arrived at the Dardanelles and joined the French forces to the siege of Sebastopol.

The lithographed plates and the texts which accompany them allow the reader to follow war events, and at the same time describe landscapes, sights, monuments and cities rarely shown in travel accounts and albums. The Album is considered one of the first editions of war correspondence. The drawings were made by Andrews and lithographed by the renowned engraver Sutcliffe, who worked in London and showed his work in numerous exhibitions.

Written by Ioli Vingopoulou

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  View of Varna in the Crimean War. In the background, the ships of the British fleet.

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  The bay of Galata at Varna, Bulgaria. In the background, the camp of the allies of the Crimean war (England, France and the Ottoman Empire).

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  View of the harbour of Balaklava close to Sebastopol, Crimea. In the background, on the right, the ruins of the Genoese castle. On the left, ships of the British fleet.

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  The monastery of Saint George at Balaklava, close to Sebastopol. In the background, cape Aya.

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  Landscape at Inkerman. In the foreground Chornaya river. In the background, the Byzantine fortress of Kalamita.

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  View of Sebastopol from the British camp during the Crimean war.

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  Positions of the British army in the siege of Sebastopol.

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  Camp of the allies of the Crimean war (England, France and the Ottoman Empire) at Sebastopol.

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  View of Sebastopol.

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  Aqueduct on Chornaya river, position held by the Kingdom of Sardinia in the Crimean war.

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  Cemetery at Sebastopol. This spot was highly important to the British forces in the Crimean war.

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  View of Sebastopol in 1855, after its siege by the British army during the Crimean war.

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  Sebastopol in 1855.

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  Title page. British soldiers in the trenches.

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  The camp of the allies of the Crimean war (England, France and the Ottoman Empire) at Bolayir on the Dardanelles.

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  View of Beloslav (Devna) lake in Bulgaria, from the British camp. On the left, General Eyre's tents.