South Kensington Museum, Dinner of Staff of the Science and Art Department
Photograph
12/12/1899 (photographed)
12/12/1899 (photographed)
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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. Museum staff is oftentimes captured in these images.
Object details
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| Title | South Kensington Museum, Dinner of Staff of the Science and Art Department (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Albumen print |
| Brief description | Photograph by Fradelle & Young, South Kensington Museum, Dinner of Staff of the Science and & Art Department for Sir John Donnellly, K.C.B., albumen print, 12 December 1899 (names on verso) |
| Physical description | A mounted sepia-coloured photograph of a large group of men in formal dinner attire seated at rows of long set banquet tables laid with tablecloths. Most of the men have turned their faces towards the camera. A fireplace topped by a mantle clock can be seen in the distance. |
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| Summary | 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. Museum staff is oftentimes captured in these images. |
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| Accession number | PH.1-1900 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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