The Mediterranean 1882-85

A bound album with the covers missing, containing 67 photographs glued in.
Themes included are:
Alexandria, including an armoured train and forts 1882
HMS Iris (1877) in 1884
Corfu 1884
Adelsburg 1884
Miromar 1884
Trieste 1884
The Nile 1884-85
Luxor 1884
Cairo 1884
Egypt 1884

Contents: This album contains photographs of an armoured trains, forts and guns at Alexandria after the British naval bombardment of 1882.
Other places include Corfu, Trieste and Egypt. There are also photographs of the despatch vessel HMS Iris (1877). It seems that some of the photographs were taken by Luigi Fiorillo, a commercial photographer in Alexandria who documented the effects of the bombardment and published an album of views.

Object Details

ID: ALB0170
Type: Photograph album
Display location: Not on display
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 432 mm x 305 mm