"Before the eye and into the heart": the Lindsays of Balcarres and the mediascape of the Crimean War

Luke Gartlan*

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Abstract

This article examines the public and private portrayals of the British aristocratic officer Robert James Lindsay, whose reported actions in the first major conflict of the Crimean War, the Battle of the Alma, became the subject of national acclaim in Victorian Britain. Through an analysis of the family’s unpublished correspondence, the author argues that their engagement with the war’s visual materials, including sketches, illustrated newspapers, panoramas, color lithographs, photographs, and popular shows, was integral to their collective effort to manage their own anxieties and maintain the priorities of their social class during their son’s two-year campaign. The family’s affective responses to visual and material culture promoted their collective aristocratic agency as interlocutors of the war’s representations.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)86-132
Number of pages47
JournalNineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Volume23
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Oct 2024

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