- Title:
- View of building works in front of the Royal Albert Hall (erecting the Albert Memorial?)
- Object name(s):
- Photograph
- Brief description:
- A mounted sepia-coloured photograph of building works in front of a domed and circular building.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Photographs
- Associated concept:
- Architecture
- Associated concept:
- History of the V&A
- Content - concept:
- concert halls
- Content - place:
- Royal Albert Hall
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2009CP4157/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- image
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 33
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- image
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 26.6
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- mount
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 34.1
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- mount
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 38.7
- Inscription content:
- '3028'
- Inscription interpretation:
- ink, on mount
- Object name:
- Photograph
- Object number:
- E.1096-1989
- Object production date:
- ca. 1870s
- Date - association:
- photographed
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1865-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1883-12-31
- Object production note:
- Anonymous:
- Object production organisation:
- Department of Science and Art of the Committee of Council on Education
- Organisation's association:
- commissioned by
- Object production place:
- South Kensington
- Place association:
- photographed
- Physical description:
- A mounted sepia-coloured photograph of building works in front of a domed and circular building.
- Reproduction number:
- 2009CP4157
- Responsible department/section:
- PDP
- Technique:
- Albumen print
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- Text:
- Photographs and photographers were present from the very beginning of the V&A's history and the Museum has an extensive collection of images from the 1850s through to the present which documents the construction and development of the V&A and the South Kensington site. Originally collected by the National Art Library as part of a programme to record works of art, architecture and design in the interest of public education, these topographic and architectural views were valued as records and as source material for students of architecture and design. As well as being crucial records of the history of the V&A, and an important element within the National Art Library's visual encyclopaedia, these photographs are also significant artefacts in the history of the art of photography.
- Text reason:
- Summary description
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8a72d327-2abc-33c4-afe4-22cfde24eaf2
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8a72d327-2abc-33c4-afe4-22cfde24eaf2, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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