An album of watercolours dedicated in the fly leaf
‘(?H) E. Adair from A. W. Adair June 13th 1855’
and inscribed:
‘The following sketches were taken in / or on the way to, Turkey and / THE CRIMEA / by Lieut. Alex William Adair / 1st Batt. Coldstream Guards / A.W. Adair left England in the ‘Alma’ Transport, on the 12th / April 1855 – arrived at the Crimea 30th April 1855. / Embarked from the Crimea 4th June 1856 and arrived at / Portsmouth, in HMS Agamemnon on the 28th June 1856’.
Album size: 16.5×13 inches
Cover
Frontispiece
‘Cintra. April 1855. A. W. Adair.’‘Greek boat off C.St Angelo / 26 April 1855 / A. W. Adair Coldm.Gds.’
‘Balaclava from Coldm.Gds Camp. A. W. Adair May 1856’. Details verso.
‘West View Colm. Guards Camp, Balaclava May 1855. A. W. Adair’. Details verso and opposite page. See previous image.
‘North View from Coldm Guards Camp Balaclava. A. W. Adair May 1855’. Details verso and opposite page. See previous image.
‘Plain of Balaclava from Coldm Guards Camp. A. W. Adair May 1855’
‘Camp. Balaclava. May 1855, A. W. Adair Coldm.Gds’.
‘Camp. Balaclava. May 1855. A. W. Adair. Coldm.Gds’.
‘Balaclava Plain taken from Coldm / Gds Camp on the day the Allies took / possession of the further side / of it. 25th May 1855. A. W. Adair’.
‘Kamara Church. Telescopic view from Coldm Gds Camp. Balaclava. May 1855. A. W. Adair’.
‘Camp and part of the plain Balaclava / from the harbour’ (verso).
‘Russian Villa in the Valley of Baida / A. W. Adair. Colm Gds. / June. 1855 / Petrovski’s Villa (or Kiosk)’.
‘Crimean Fountain, AWA / Fountain in the Tartar Village of Varnutka / between Kamara and Baidar’.
‘Croats and Turks. Crimea. June. 1855 / A. Wm. Adair. Coldm Gds’.
‘S.W. View from Gorden House (Convalescent Officers’Quarters) / Scutari / 6 Aug.1855 / A. Wm. Adair / Coldm.Gds’.
‘S. E. View from Gordon House / Scutari / A.W. Adair. Coldm Gds / 3 August 1855’.
‘Galata’.
‘Scutair from the Golden Horn’.
‘North view from my tent / Camp before Sebastopol / A.W.Adair Coldm Gds. July 1855’.
‘Head Quarters of Lord Rokeby / Comm.the Brigade of Guards / taken from the Gds.Hospital /A. W. Adair Coldm.Gds/ 3 July 1855’.
‘Carrying wounded out of the Quarries / A. W. Adair / Coldm Gds’.
'A. W. Adair. / Aoldm. Gds. / July. 1855'.
Grave stone of Lt.Rodney Mitchell, Royal Artillery ‘About 200 yards north of the Windmill, at the entrance to the Careening Bay Marine / A. W. Adair Coldm Gds / 2 Nov 1855’.
‘Flag of Truce to bury the dead of 18th June 1855. Between the Redan and the Quarries. Taken from memory from the corner of the mortar battery where I was on the night of the 18th and day of the 19th June. A W Adair Coldm Gds. 20th June 1855 / The furthest white flag is on the Redan, the nearest on the extreme English Works in the Quarries, the men near it are Highlanders, most of whom were now for their first time in the trenches; they soon discontinued wearing kilts in the trenches’.
‘Colonel Yea’s grave near the Middle Ravine / A. W. Adair Coldm Gds / 2 Nov 1855’.‘Colonel Yea’s grave near the Middle Ravine / A. W. Adair Coldm Gds / 2 Nov 1855’.
‘Woronzoff Road / Entrance to / Sebastopol / A. W. Adair Coldm Gdns 9 Nov. 1855’.
‘Woronzoff Road from the Picquet House / under the Redan / A W Adair Coldm / Gds 9 Nov 1855’.
Sebastopol from the Redan / AWA March 1856’.
‘View from the window of my hut / AWA June 1856 / Taken a day or two before leaving the Crimea’.
‘Monastery of St George’.
‘Village of Inkermann’.
‘Alma / Battlefield of the Alma, from near the Burnt Village / of Bourliouk (sic). The Bridge existed previously to the Battle. At this part the 2nd Division crossed the River’.
‘The End’; an exploding canon ball or mine.
A letter from Adair to his mother dated 18 May 1855, Balaclava, with details and ‘… the Sanatariam (sic) Hospital where Miss Nightingale is now staying’.
