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Title:
South Kensington Museum, Glass Gallery (Gallery 128) looking west towards Gallery 127
Object name(s):
Photograph
Brief description:
A mounted sepia coloured photograph of display cases filled with glassware in a long narrow exhibition space. The wood floor is installed in a herringbone pattern.
Collection:
Victoria and Albert Museum
Associated concept:
Photographs
Associated concept:
Architecture
Associated concept:
History of the V&A
Content - concept:
glassware
Content - concept:
museums
Content - place:
South Kensington Museum
Current reproduction location:
https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2009CH9944/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
Location type:
Thumbnail
Dimension:
Height
Dimension measured part:
mount
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
33
Dimension:
Width
Dimension measured part:
mount
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
41
Object name:
Photograph
Object number:
3873-1910
Object production date:
1910
Date - association:
photographed
Date - earliest / single:
1910-01-01
Date - latest:
1910-12-31
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 Museum
Place association:
photographed
Other number:
33790 (MA/32/97)
Other number type:
Negative number (V&A Archive Guard Book reference)
Physical description:
A mounted sepia coloured photograph of display cases filled with glassware in a long narrow exhibition space. The wood floor is installed in a herringbone pattern.
Reproduction number:
2009CH9944
Responsible department/section:
PDP
Style:
documentary
Technique:
albumen process
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/8abde444-5c80-3acc-84ea-313caea30ec9

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8abde444-5c80-3acc-84ea-313caea30ec9, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC

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