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South Kensington Museum, North Court, north-west corner, showing architectural casts, view towards Pisa Cathedral pulpit

Photograph
1868 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • South Kensington Museum, North Court, north-west corner, showing architectural casts, view towards Pisa Cathedral pulpit (generic title)
  • London Series (Series title)
Materials and techniques
Stereoscopic albumen prints
Brief description
Photographs by J. Davis Burton, No. 4 in the London Series, 'South Kensington Museum, North Court, north-west corner, showing architectural casts, view towards Pisa Cathedral pulpit', albumen prints, 1868
Physical description
Stereoscopic photographs mounted on yellow card showing the interior of an exhibition space with plaster casts, including a chariot drawn by two horses.
Dimensions
  • Single image height: 82mm
  • Single image width: 83mm
  • Card height: 87mm
  • Card width: 176mm
Marks and inscriptions
  • DAVIS BURTON'S / LONDON SERIES (On front of object along edges.)
  • SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM / Photographed by Special Permission, by J. David Burton / No.4 NORTH COURT-NORTH-WEST CORNER / Shewing Casts of the Biga (or two horse chariot) from the original in marble at the Vatican, and of the Pulpit by / Giovani Pisano, formerly in the Cathedral at Pisa. (See Guide Book to S. K. M., pp.23, 24, 25.) / (,i>Reg. No. 50) (Back of object)
Credit line
Presented by Alan S. Cole, 27 July 1908
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
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.

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.
Associated objects
Other number
N2013 - Negative number (V&A Archive Guard Book reference)
Collection
Accession number
PH.1537-1908

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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