Oak Struck by Lightning, Badger, 1856., 1856, Albumen silver print from paper negative, Image: 18 x 22.7 cm (7 1/16 x 8 15/16 in.), Photographs, Alfred Capel Cure (British, 1826–1896), Cure joined the army at age eighteen, rising through the ranks to the level of major in 1855. Perhaps he saw the awkwardly arching limbs and shattered form of this young oak struck by lightning as an analogue for the agonies he had witnessed during the Crimean War, when so many colleagues and friends in his regiment were torn apart by shot and shell
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Oak Struck, Lightning, Badger, 1856, Albumen silver print, paper negative, Image, 18 x 22.7 cm, 7 1/16 8 15/16, Photographs, Alfred Capel Cure, British, 1826–1896, Cure joined, army, age eighteen, rising, ranks, level, major, 1855, saw, awkwardly arching, limbs, shattered form, young oak, struck, lightning, analogue, agonies, witnessed, Crimean War, colleagues, friends, regiment, torn apart, shot, shell
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