Photograph
1929 (photographed)
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| Place of origin |
Photograph mounted on green card
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Photograph |
| Brief description | Photograph depicting the sculptor Mateo Hernández working on the sculpture 'The Bather' in front of a life model. 1925 |
| Physical description | Photograph mounted on green card |
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| Gallery label | Gallery 100, 2016-17:
Kineton Parkes Archive
1920–30
William Kineton Parkes was a historian of sculpture, a novelist and a librarian. As part of his research into modern sculpture in the 1920s, he sent questionnaires and requests for photographs to hundreds of sculptors. His archive was donated to the V&A in 1938. It includes nearly 5,000 photographs sent to him by sculptors from around the world and 319 completed questionnaires. |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Kineton Parkes in 1938 |
| Object history | This photograph is from a collection bequeathed by William Kineton Parkes in 1938. Kineton Parkes was a novelist, art historian and librarian, who was best known for his writing on sculpture. He sent out questionnaires to sculptors in the 1920s, which are now held in the Archive of Art and Design. This photograph is one of many which were sent to Kineton Parkes by the sculptors he approached to complete the questionnaire. |
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| Accession number | 6813-1938 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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