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Title:
Victoria and Albert Museum, Gallery 48, West Hall looking north-west towards doorway to Gallery 47, during construction
Object name(s):
Photograph
Brief description:
A black and white photograph of an interior space with a boarded up arched doorway surmounted by balustraded balcony and open archway with view to an upper level. Skylights are also visible.
Collection:
Victoria and Albert Museum
Associated concept:
Photographs
Associated concept:
Architecture
Associated concept:
History of the V&A
Content - concept:
museums
Content - concept:
archways
Content - concept:
balustrades
Content - place:
Victoria and Albert Museum
Current reproduction location:
https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2009CP4087/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
Location type:
Thumbnail
Dimension:
Height
Dimension measured part:
image
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
29
Dimension:
Width
Dimension measured part:
image
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
23.9
Material:
photographic paper
Object name:
Photograph
Object number:
E.1137-1989
Object production date:
ca. 1908
Date - association:
photographed
Date - earliest / single:
1903-01-01
Date - latest:
1912-12-31
Object production note:
Anonymous:
Object production person:
Unknown
Object production place:
Victoria and Albert Museum
Place association:
photographed
Physical description:
A black and white photograph of an interior space with a boarded up arched doorway surmounted by balustraded balcony and open archway with view to an upper level. Skylights are also visible.
Reproduction number:
2009CP4087
Responsible department/section:
PDP
Technique:
photography
Technique:
Gelatin silver 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/aeeb0676-378e-3bf8-930c-ff9cb1f86958

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/aeeb0676-378e-3bf8-930c-ff9cb1f86958, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC

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